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Art Subject: Portrait
KISS on a Street in London, England
Located in Austin, TX
KISS posed in full costume on a Street in London, England.
Kiss (commonly styled as KISS) was an American rock band formed in New York City in 1973 by Paul Stanley (vocals, rhythm g...
Category
1970s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
2 Stefanie Schneider's Minis 'Till Death do us Part' & the Vinyl - signed, loose
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
2 Stefanie Schneider's Minis 'Till Death do us Part' - 2005 -
signed on front,
not mounted.
2 Archival Color Photographs based on 2 Polaroids.
Polaroid sized open Editions 1999...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Lambda, Polaroid
Frida Kahlo I
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
Nude Portrait - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print - Oversized
Located in London, GB
Nude Portrait - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print - Oversized
(Photo by H. Armstrong Roberts/Alamy)
A woman poses for a nude studio portrait.
Additional Information:
Unframed
Paper Si...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Paul Wunderlich smoking
Located in Llanbrynmair, GB
Portrait of Paul Wunderlich smoking by his wife Karin Székessy. Printed as a Photo serigraph and signed by the artist.
'Paul Wunderlich smoking’
By Karin Székessy
Medium - Photo ser...
Category
1960s Other Art Style Black and White Photography
Materials
Screen
Marilyn in the black dress looking at you
By Bert Stern
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Bert stern
Marilyn looking at you in the Vogue dress
The last sitting (1962)
superb and large photo of Marilyn Monroe in Christian Dior's mythical black dress for Vogue magazine
phot...
Category
Early 2000s Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Lola's World
Located in Los Angeles, CA
These images are available as hand-pulled polymer photogravures, made with bone
black and warm sepia inks on Hahnemühle Copperplate paper.
Edition of 109
7 x 9 photopolymer gravure
Signed numbered and dated by the artist.
The photographs and poem that evolved into this series of photographs and the accompanying book “Yesterday” were made during the summer of 2020. Although
much of the country was in the midst of the Covid 19 pandemic, on this remote island off the coast of Maine, we still felt free from much of the toll that Covid was taking.
Able to spend time outside, in nature, we had the illusion of safety, of normalcy almost, whilst at the same time being painfully aware of how the virus was increasingly
touching everyone's lives. By then we all knew of people who had died, or become ill and we were managing the stress of futures shifting and plans that had been derailed,
fearing what would come with the change of the seasons. That summer represented a pause in time, a moment where life could feel normal, when we were still holding on to a world of yesterdays.
Maine-based photographic artist and writer Sal Taylor Kydd uses various photographic media in a personal narrative that explores themes around memory and belonging; combining her poetry with alternative processes of photography and object-making.
Taylor Kydd’s fine art photographs have been exhibited throughout the country and internationally, including Barcelona, San Miguel De Allende, Portland, Boston and Los Angeles; and she has been featured in numerous publications, including Shots Magazine, Don’t Take Pictures Magazine, Lenscratch, Diffusion Annual and The Hand magazine.
She has self-published a number of books combining her poetry with her photographs. Her books are in private and museum collections throughout the country including The Getty Museum, Bowdoin College, The Peabody Essex Museum and the Maine Women Writer’s Collection at the University of New England. Taylor Kydd’s latest book “Yesterday”, produced by Datz Press, is a limited edition book of poems and photographs that explores our sense of loss around the pandemic of 2020.
Taylor Kydd is also a veteran workshop leader and educator and has led workshops and conducted portfolio reviews throughout the country and internationally with Maine Media, Santa Fe Workshops, Palm Beach Photography...
Category
2010s Romantic Figurative Photography
Materials
Photogravure
Paige Powell & Billy Boy
By Andy Warhol
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
This work is unique taken by Andy Warhol.
Stamped on the reverse by Andy Warhol Authentication Board. Foundation number also on verso.
The work comes with an Authentication Letter...
Category
Late 20th Century Pop Art Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Untitled (Cathy and Shannon) - Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Untitled (Cathy and Shannon) - 2004
20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventory No. 477...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Pink Debbie Harry - Limited Edition Mick Rock Estate Print
By Mick Rock
Located in London, GB
Pink Debbie Harry - Limited Edition Mick Rock Estate Print
Debbie Harry in pink, 1978 (photo Mick Rock).
All prints are numbered by the Estate.
Edition size varies according to pr...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
The Rolling Stones "Mick and Chick" Beggars Banquet
Located in Austin, TX
“Mick and Chick” by Michael Joesph from the famous photo shoot of The Rolling Stones for their Beggars Banquet album at Sarum Chase mansion, Hampstead, L...
Category
1960s Photorealist Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Lucy Liu - Holmby Hills, CA 1999 III
Located in Toronto, ON
Archival Pigment Print
COA Hand Signed by Michael Grecco
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Jane Monheit - New York, US 2003 (III)
Located in Toronto, ON
Archival Pigment Print
COA Hand Signed by Michael Grecco
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Bert stern "Marilyn Monroe classic Pink roses " 2011
By Bert Stern
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Bert stern
Marilyn Monroe classic Pink roses
Mythical photo of the last seance (1962)
Ink jet print by bert stern
2011
signed on both sides
certificate signed by the artist in his lifetime
single copy
25 X 40,5 cms
perfect condition
never exposed to light.
New from antique stock...
Category
2010s Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Black Hippie with Blond Afro, Washington Square Park - Henri Ghent Black Curator
Located in Miami, FL
In 1969, weekends at Bethesda Fountain were a gathering place for the radical, glamorous, and hip people of the time. Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin were regular speakers there. Po...
Category
1960s Street Art Portrait Photography
Materials
Inkjet, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Natalie Wood in Coat for "The Great Race"
Located in Austin, TX
This stunning black and white portrait features Natalie Wood smiling in a heavy coat for her role in "The Great Race".
Natalie Wood was an American-Russian actress. She began her ca...
Category
1960s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
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
Billie Holiday at the Olympia
Located in PARIS, FR
A few days after the death of my father, André Sas, in 2020, I received numerous very moving testimonies full of praise for him from the from his former colleagues and partners in th...
Category
20th Century Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Bjork - Signed Limited Edition Print
Located in London, GB
Icelandic singer Bjork in New York, 1998, following the release of her third solo album, Homogenic (1997)
Cover shoot for VOX Magazine
(photo Kevin Westenberg)
Unframed
Signed a...
Category
1990s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Color
Man with Crown. Two, Black and & White Portrait Limited Edition Photograph
By Ricky Cohete
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Channeling the energy of “water-signs” in astrology, he captures these mysterious men thru a romantic lens. The embrace of the shadows and the light mixed with the gaze of their bodi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Black and White
Stefanie Schneider Polaroid sized unlimited Mini 'Calliope' - signed
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Stefanie Schneider Polaroid sized unlimited Mini 'Calliope' - 2013 -
signed in front, not mounted.
1 Digital Color Photographs based on a Polaroid.
Polaroid sized open Editions ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Lambda, Polaroid
Sisters - Contemporary, Polaroid, Childhood
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Sisters - 2023 -
50x64cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Photograph printed Hahnemuhle Fine Art Baryta paper 325 gr, based on a reclaimed Fuji Instant Film Negative (not m...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Untitled (Cathy and Shannon) - Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Untitled (Cathy and Shannon) - 2004
20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventory No. 488...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Gilbert Prousch and George Passmore
By Andy Warhol
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
These are 2 unique photographic works taken by Andy Warhol. Known as Gilbert and George, the artists Gilbert Prousch and George Passmore have collabora...
Category
1970s Pop Art Portrait Photography
Materials
Polaroid
Wild Strawberry Leporello - Polaroid, Nude, Women, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
In this box scented with wild Strawberry flavour
I hand folded my Strawberry story into an exclusive leporello
This is number 2/3
Digital color print based on a series of original Polaroids
on beautiful PHOTO RAG ULTRA SMOOTH
305gsm - 100% cotton by HAHNEMÜHLE
Signed and numbered.
156cm x 15cm
The leporello is comfortably wrapped in a latex sheet
rubbed with freshly picked strawberries
and sprinkled with home made golden shower...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Color, Archival Pigment, Polaroid
Vintage Portrait of The Dukes of Windsor - Vintage B/W photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Portrait of The Dukes of Windsor is an original black and white photograph realized by an Anonymous photographer.
Stamp of "Elio Sorci" fotoreportage Rome on the rear.
Very...
Category
1960s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Nevermore
Located in Denton, TX
Edition of 25
Signed, titled, dated and numbered.
Series: Ghostland
Keith Carter is an American photographer who is known for his dreamlike black and white photographs of the figure...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
I don't believe what you say to me anymore (Till Death do Us Part) - Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
I don't believe what you say to me anymore (Till Death do Us Part) - 2008
20x24cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Certifi...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Jim Morrison of The Doors by Art Kane
By Art Kane
Located in Austin, TX
Jim Morrison, taken in 1968 by Art Kane
Art Kane and Jim Morrison hit it off and spent the shoot discussing culture, literature and current events. Kane photographed Morrison for Li...
Category
Late 20th Century Photorealist Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Liam Gallagher of Oasis
Located in Austin, TX
Signed limited edition print of Liam Gallagher photographed by Pat Pope at the Creation Records office, London in 1994.
Creation Records was an influential British independent recor...
Category
Late 20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Photograph of Gay Talese
By Andy Warhol
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
This is a unique photographic work by Andy Warhol of Gay Talese, a former journalist for The New York Times and Esquire magazine who helped define literary journalism in the 1960s.
...
Category
1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Beaton, John Weissmuller, Cecil Beaton, Electa Editrice Portfolios (after)
By Cecil Beaton
Located in Southampton, NY
Héliogravure on vélin paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Cecil Beaton, Electa Editrice Portfolios, 1981. Published and pri...
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Joan Didion, Hollywood, 1968 (22-2) Three Quarters Portrait
Located in New York, NY
Listing includes framing with UV plexiglas.
Joan Didion by Julian Wasser
Silver gelatin print
Image Size: 11 x 8 inches
Frame Size: 17 x 14 x 2 inches
Edition 11 of 15
Signed on verso by Julian Wasser
Please note the frame is in good condition. The print is in mint condition.
Artist Biography -
Julian Wasser started his career in photography in the Washington DC bureau of the Associated Press where he met and accompanied the famous news photographer Weegee – who would become a lasting influence on him. In the mid-60s Wasser moved to Los Angeles as a contract photographer for TIME, LIFE, and FORTUNE magazines and becoming internationally known as the go to guy for getting candid but memorably composed photographs. (His iconic images of Jack Nicholson and Anjelica Huston; Marcel Duchamp and Eve Babitz...
Category
1960s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Ayoni and child by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
Ayoni and her child – a smiling Turkana mother.
John uses simple natural light and builds primitive makeshift studios from locally acquired white sheets! The suffuse light allows h...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Kevin Costner in the pool, 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 actor Kevin Costner in the pool.
From personality por...
Category
1980s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
David Bowie 1978
Located in Austin, TX
David Bowie live on stage in Canada by John R Rowlands.
Signed limited edition 17x22" print, number 17/25
Hand signed and number by the artist.
Category
Late 20th Century Photorealist Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Dolly Parton and Mick Jagger hugging
Located in Austin, TX
IN STOCK AND AVAILABLE FOR IMMEDIATE SHIPPING
Signed limited edition archival print of Country music star Dolly Parton hugging rock star Mick Jagger of ...
Category
Late 20th Century Photorealist Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
$2,400 Sale Price
20% Off
Kate Moss
Located in New York, NY
Listing includes framing with UV plexi and a 14 day return policy.
This is available for pick up framed at Los Angeles gallery at no additional charge. For transport the US and internationally, please inquire for more details.
Kate Moss by Glen Luchford...
Category
1990s Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
$20,000
The Tiara (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Tiara (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) - 2005
20x24cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Signature label and Certificate....
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
What are we gonna do?! (Till Death do us Part) - Polaroid, Figurative
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
What are we gonna do?! (Till Death do us Part) - 2008
20x24cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature la...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Untitled 25, Hussein Chalayan) 2006. Fashion Black & White Archival Print
By Arslan Sükan
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Sükan created the series as he was working for international magazines such as L'Uomo Vogue (Italy), A Magazine (France), Crash (France), Faces (Switzerland), and Muse Magazine (Ital...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Black and White, Archival Pigment
Angel (Heavenly Falls)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Angel (Heavenly Falls) - 2016
20x20cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventory No. 9069.
N...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Japan, Girl Winter Costume
Located in Middletown, NY
Stillfried, Raimund von
Japan, Girl Winter Costume
Yokohama, Japan: c 1880. Hand-tinted albumen print, 10 1/4 x 7 3/4 inches (260x 200 mm), numbered B 1080 and titled in the lower r...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Watercolor, Photographic Paper
Tupac Shakur – Albert Watson, Photography, Portrait, Black & White, Celebrity
Located in Zurich, CH
Albert WATSON (*1942, Scotland)
Tupac Shakur, New York City, 1991
Archival pigment print
107 x 142 cm (42 1/8 x 55 7/8 in.)
Edition of 10, plus 2 AP
Print...
Category
1990s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Thoughtful Al (1974) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Located in London, GB
Thoughtful Al (1974) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
(Photo by Steve Wood)
25th March 1974:
American actor Al Pacino in London. After making his name in The...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Touch of Dew: Lisa Fonssagrives, New York
Located in New York, NY
Gelatin silver print
Signed in pencil, verso
16 x 20 inches, sheet size
14 x 18.25 inches, image size
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Lillian Bassma...
Category
1960s American Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Elton John, 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
Color portrait of famous singer and songwriter Elton John sitting on a chair.
From personality portraits and a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Patty Owen, New York – Albert Watson, Woman, BlackandWhite, Actress, Photography
Located in Zurich, CH
Albert WATSON (*1942, Scotland)
Patty Owen, New York City, 1986
Chromogenic print from a polaroid positive face mounted to acrylic (Diasec)
Sheet 238 x 182.5 cm (93 3/4 x 71 7/8 in.)...
Category
1980s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Tales of Bitter Moon #25
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Tales of Bitter Moon #25', Edition of 7, 30x30cm, 2018
digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid mounted on Dibond - gloss coating,
hand signed & numbered by artist on the back.
Please ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Photography
Materials
C Print, Color, Polaroid
Princess Nude, Portrait, Fine Art Photography
Located in München, BY
Image size: 70x55 cm
12 Limited Editions + 2 Artist Proofs
Platinum
Massive Wengé, Passe-Partout + Museum Glass
frame size: 110x95 cm
Evocative, sensual and voluptuous, Marc Lagrang...
Category
1990s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Platinum
Black Dahlia N°2, Balearic Island, 21st century, contemporary, photography
Located in München, BY
Edition of 10
Fashion and fine art embrace each other in the photography of Jacques Olivar (b. 1941), where the miseen-scene often subtly references literature and film. Olivar orig...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Birgit and Paul, 1996 - analog Photography, Women
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Birgit and Paul, 1996
Edition 1/10,
25.5x20cm including the white frame, image size 23x15cm.
Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the Artist.
Certificate and Signature label.
Not mounted.
Stefanie Schneider's early woman portraits and nudes.
Stefanie Schneider received her MFA in Communication Design at the Folkwang Schule Essen, Germany. Her work has been shown at the Museum for Photography, Braunschweig, Museum für Kommunikation, Berlin, the Institut für Neue Medien, Frankfurt, the Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden, Kunstverein Bielefeld, Museum für Moderne Kunst Passau, Les Rencontres...
Category
1990s Outsider Art Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
David Bowie - limited Mick Rock Estate edition print
By Mick Rock
Located in London, GB
David Bowie (photo Mick Rock) - signed limited edition print
David Bowie backstage, 1973. (photo Mick Rock)
paper size : 24x20 inches / 51 x 61 cm
Stamped and numbered by the Est...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
I Love Her, 2018 C-print mounted on dibond, perspex face in tray frame
Located in London, GB
I Love Her, 2018
C-print mounted on dibond, perspex face in tray frame
NB: also available with non-reflective Plexiglass
Framed:
113 x 103.1 cm
44 1/2 x 40 1/2 in
Edition of 7 plus ...
Category
2010s Old Masters Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Call Me Timothée #5
Located in New York, NY
Call Me Timothée #5
10/27/2024
Polaroid (Unique)
Signed, titled, and dated, verso
4.25 x 3.5 inches
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Polaroid
Capricorn, Nude, Fine Art Photography
Located in München, BY
Image size: 100 x 125 cm
7 Limited Editions + 2 Artist Proofs
Archival Pigment Print
White Floating Box
frame size: 125 x 153 cm
Evocative, sensual and voluptuous, Marc Lagrange's ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Platinum
Stefanie Schneider Polaroid sized unlimited Mini 'Playgirl' - signed
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Stefanie Schneider Polaroid sized unlimited Mini 'Playgirl (Heavenly Falls)' - 2016 -
signed in front, not mounted.
1 Archival Color Photograph based on the original Polaroid.
P...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Lambda, Polaroid
Beachboy (Zuma Beach)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Beachboy (Zuma Beach) - 1999
20x25cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artists Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Signature Label and Certificate.
Artist Inventory # 207.
Not mou...
Category
1990s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
The Pop Artists - Andy Warhol with Portraits
Located in Toronto, ON
In 1964, Heyman was invited by Basic Books Publishing to collaborate on the subject of Pop art. In the fall of 1964, Heyman spent three days photographing such artists as Andy Warhol...
Category
1960s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Lerrin - Photograph by John Kenny, C-type Print with Acrylic Face-Mount
By John Kenny 1
Located in Coltishall, GB
A portrait of Lerrin, a Rendille matriarch from northern Kenya in 2019. A female elder from Africa whose gaze is full of wisdom after a life of challenge in the heat of the African ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Other Art Style Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
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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