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Art Subject: Portrait
Le Regard - Contemporary, Figurative, Woman, Polaroid, Photography
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Le Regard', 2016, Edition 2/7 plus 2 Artist Proof
Based on a Polaroid, digital C-Print, not mounted.
Signed on the back and with certificate.
Artist inventory PL2016-182
Kirsten Th...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
C Print, Color, Polaroid
Wendy Resting, Las Vegas - Contemporary Portrait Color Photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
From Richard Heeps 'Man's Ruin' Series, this contemporary portrait is part of a sequence of artworks 'Wendy Flamin' Eyeball', 'Wendy Resting' & 'Oldsmobile and Sinful Barbie's' shot ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
Vincent Cassel - Signed Limited Edition Print (2000)
Located in London, GB
Vincent Cassel - Signed Limited Edition Print
Vincent Cassel Leading Men
Paris Magazine Cover Shoot
November 1 2000
(photo Kevin Westenberg)
NB All prints are signed and numbered by the artist.
Unframed
Signed and numbered by the artist.
Edition limited to 25 only this size
Printed 2020
This size image: 20 x 24" / 51 x 61 cm
About the image:
Vincent Cassel is a French actor. He first achieved recognition for his performance as a troubled French Jewish youth, in Mathieu Kassovitz's 1995 film La Haine...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Burlesque Trio - Set of Three Framed Color Portrait Photographs
Located in Cambridge, GB
Three framed artworks from Richard Heeps Burlesque series.
Boudoir, Tease-O-Rama, Hollywood, 2003
Delilah Right Red Hand I, The Whoopee Club, London, 2004
Dirty Martini Fan Dance XX...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
Monica Vitti - Vintage Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Monica Vitti is a vintage black and white photo of the italian actres, realized in 1960s.
L'agenzia Nazionale Stampa Associata (ANSA)
Monica Vitti is born in Rome on November 3, 1931. Admitted in 1950 to the Academy of Dramatic Art (where she will return in 1986 as a teacher), and graduated in 1953, she immediately tackles the scenes in L'avaro di Molière (1954), The island of the parrots of S. Tofano (1954), They founded a city of C. Meano (1954), Mother Courage and her children of B. Brecht (1954). Between 1956 and 1959 she also participated in television broadcasts and acted in numerous adaptations of famous theatrical texts. She made her film debut playing secondary parts in Laugh, Laugh, Laugh! by E. Anton, 1955; A mink coat by G. Pellegrini, 1956; Le dritte di M. Amendola, 1958. Dubbing actress of Il scido di M. Antonioni (1957), she meets the director who, after having directed her to the theater in I am a camera by J. Van Druten (1957) and in Secret Scandals by Antonioni and E. Bartolini (1957), he calls her as the protagonist in L'avventura (1960), a film with which V. is a leading actress. Always led by Antonioni, from now on she will play suffering characters who embody a profound crisis of feelings. Apart from a brief television parenthesis (a transposition of the short story The White Nights by F. Dostoevskij, directed by V. Cottafavi), La notte (1961), L'eclisse (1962) and Deserto rosso (1963) belong to a happy partnership with Antonioni (who will be revived episodically for the production of The Mystery of Oberwald [1980], a courageous experiment of intertwining cinema and electronic techniques, propitiated by the exhumation of a play by J. Cocteau, L'aigle à deux têtes). In the second half of the Sixties, however, the producers showed that they preferred her as an actress endowed with caricatural flair, fine humor, vitalistic exuberance, communicative immediacy; and audiences pay her a growing success, not always corresponding to the quality of her filmography or the variety of her interpretations, among which are the very convincing ones in Modesty Blaise...
Category
1960s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Portraits of the Jurors in the Ruby Trial - Historical Vintage Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Portraits of the Jurors in the Ruby Trial is a black and white vintage photograph realized in the 1960s. It belongs to historical album including photo reportages of historical event...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Italian Singer Iva Zanicchi - Vintage photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
This Vintage Photo shows the Italian Singer Iva Zanicchi.
Lightly damaged on the upper right angle.
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
French poet, artist, and filmmaker Jean Cocteau with actress Ricki Soma
Located in New York, NY
French poet, artist, and filmmaker Jean Cocteau with actress Ricki Soma and dancer Leo Coleman
New York City, 1949/printed later
Estate stamp in black ink, verso
Archival pigment p...
Category
1940s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Mick Jagger in bed with Anita Pallenberg and Michèle Breton, Performance
Located in Austin, TX
Signed limited edition 16x20" print of Mick Jagger with Anita Pallenberg and Michèle Breton by Alec Byrne, taken at the film set of Nicolas Roeg’s “Pe...
Category
Late 20th Century Photorealist Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Blondie Blue by BATIK- Signed Limited Edition
By BATIK
Located in London, GB
Blondie Blue
By BATIK
Archival pigment pop art print of pop culture icon Debbie Harry of punk rock glam band Blondie
Edition of 15
BATIK is a London based fine artist and image ma...
Category
1970s Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
John Lennon and Paul McCartney The Beatles by Robert Whitaker
Located in Austin, TX
Paul McCartney and John Lennon of The Beatles pictured during the recording of their annual Christmas message to the groups’ fan club at the Marquee St...
Category
Late 20th Century Photorealist Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Beachshoot Mini #09 - mounted - featuring Rdaha Mitchell, based on a Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Stefanie Schneider's Minis -
The size of a Polaroid.
Untitled #9 (Beachshoot), 2005.
Lambda digital Color Photographs based on a Polaroid.
Signed and signature brand on verso.
...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Plexiglass, Color, Lambda, Polaroid
Jacqueline Bouvier with John Kennedy Jr. - Vintage Photograph - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Jacqueline Bouvier with her son John Kennedy Jr. is a vintage photograph realized in the 1960s.
Good conditions.
The artwork is depicted in a well-ba...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
In Bloom - Contemporary, Woman, Polaroid, Interior
By Lisa Toboz
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
In Bloom - 2020
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proof, 25x20cm,
Digital C-Print based on an original Polaroid on Hahnemuhle photo rag paper, not mounted.
Signed on back with certifica...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Black and White, Polaroid
Immaculate, Portrait. Limited edition fashion color photograph.
By Lèa Bon
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Dreams and fantasies from the past and present are portrayed by Léa Bon’s subjects, which she uses as her own personal dolls.
Léa Bon work is a profound exploration of dreams and fa...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Pigment
I am changing - Contemporary, Photograph, Landscape
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
I am changing (2007)
50 x 75 cm, Edition 1/5 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Photography printed on Canson Barita 310gr.
Signed on back with Certificate.
Not mounted.
About myself
I was b...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Color, Archival Pigment
Lip Service - 21st Century, Polaroid, Potrrait, Photography, Contemporary, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Lip Service, 2017,
Edition 1/7 plus 2 Artist Proofs, 20x20cm.
Digital C-print, Based on Polaroid, not mounted.
Signed on the back and with certificate.
...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Elvis Presley, The Sea. Portrait. Digital Collage Color Photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Castelloland works with objects whose uniqueness is fundamental to the narrative of each story, as each image reacts and develops through the interaction between the word and the obj...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment
Choreographer/Dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of ballet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov, 1995. Comes directly from the Jack Mitchell Archives with a certif...
Category
1990s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
$1,200 Sale Price
20% Off
El Campesino by James Sparshatt. 20" x 20" photograph on Brushed Aluminiu
Located in Coltishall, GB
The Viñales valley in western Cuba is a place of stunning beauty where perhaps the finest tobacco leaves in the world are grown. The tobacco farmers live hard but proud lives.
The S...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Metal
Salvador Dali with Cane
Located in Austin, TX
Black and white portrait of painter Salvador Dali standing with a cane in hand in front of one of his paintings.
Salvador Dali was a Spanish surrealist artist renowned for his techn...
Category
1960s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Only Elvis Gold signed limited edition print
By BATIK
Located in London, GB
Only Elvis Gold
by B A T I K
signed limited edition print
pop art print of the infamous mock arrest mugshot of Elvis Presley.
Archival pigment print
paper size 40x30 inches / 1...
Category
2010s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Young Prince Charles III - Vintage Photo - 1965
Located in Roma, IT
Young Prince Charles III- Vintage Photo realized in 1965.
Good conditions and aged.
Category
1960s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$128 Sale Price
40% Off
Marilyn Monroe In A Bikini (1951) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Located in London, GB
Marilyn Monroe In A Bikini (1951) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
(Photo by Archive Photos/Getty Images)
American actress Marilyn Monroe (1926 - 1962) posing on a rooftop circa 1951. ...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Chaim Weizmann
By Lotte Jacobi
Located in Kansas City, MO
Lotte Jacobi
Chaim Weizmann
Photograph
Year: 1948
Size: 8.75x7.25in
Annotated by hand on verso in pencil
Ref.: 924802-1353
Lotte Jacobi (August 17, 1896 – May 6, 1990) was a leading American portrait photographer and photojournalist, known for her high-contrast black-and-white portrait photography, characterized by intimate, sometimes dramatic, sometimes idiosyncratic and often definitive humanist depictions of both ordinary people in the United States and Europe and some of the most important artists, thinkers and activists of the 20th century.
Jacobi's photographic style stressed informality, and sought to delve deeper into the traits of her subjects than traditional portraiture. She made a point of photographing subjects in their own environments, and talking to them while she worked. She explained the reasoning behind her approach this way:
"I just try and get people to talk, to relax, to be themselves. I don't like a passive, bored subject. I do portraits because I like people, and I want to bring out their personalities. Many photographers today, I think, are bringing out the worst part of people. I try and bring out the best."
Jacobi is perhaps best known for her "portrait of Albert Einstein (Princeton, 1938), whom she photographed candidly, seated at his desk, dishevelled and dressed in a leather jacket, a work that was refused by Life magazine for its simplicity." Other personality-driven portraits include "Eleanor Roosevelt sitting back, gesturing, and obviously speaking in midsentence; Marc Chagall depicted as a jovial family man; Thomas Mann appearing as thoughtful as his work; and more candid, gentle portraits of Einstein." Other celebrated subjects included poets W. H. Auden, Robert Frost...
Category
1940s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$966 Sale Price
35% Off
Eva Herzigova and her Java python, South of France
Located in München, BY
Edition of 5
Portrait of the young Supermodel Eva Herzigova with her Java Phython.
Fashion and fine art embrace each other in the photography of Jacque...
Category
1990s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Freddie Mercury - Limited Edition Mick Rock Estate Print
By Mick Rock
Located in London, GB
Freddie Mercury - Limited Edition Mick Rock Estate Print
Portrait of Freddie Mercury, 1974. (photo Mick Rock).
All prints are numbered by the Estate.
Ed...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
You're not taking care of me! (Till Death do us Part) - Polaroid, Figurative
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
You're not taking care of me! (Till Death do us Part) - 2008
20x24cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Certificate and Signa...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Trade-off veil
Located in München, BY
Edition of 7
Portrait of a girl. Surma ethnic group, Ethiopia.
Living next to nature does not mean avoiding glamour. Every expensive fabric or another material used in high fashion...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
'Hans' from the movie Immaculate Springs - starring Udo Kier
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Hans (Immaculate Springs) - 1998
Edition of 5,
58x57cm, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the Polaroid.
Signature Label and Certificate. ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
$2,238 Sale Price
25% Off
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
Cricket on the Nose Scene - Untitled II - 29 Palms, CA, analog, mounted
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Untitled II' (Cricket on the Nose Scene) from the 29 Palms, CA series - 2009
56x56cm, Edition 1/5,
analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on a Polaroid
signed on verso,...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Metal
The American Actor John Wayne - Vintage Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The American Actor John Wayne in the early 1970s.
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Marilyn On The Roof (1955) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
By Ed Feingersh
Located in London, GB
Marilyn On The Roof (1955) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
(Photo by Ed Feingersh/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)
American actress Marilyn Monroe (1926 - 1962) leans over the bal...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Alona
Located in New York, NY
Signed and numbered, verso
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
“The Black Eye” continues Michal Chelbin’s exploration of the world of athletes and perfor...
Category
Early 2000s Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Mercury And May - Limited Edition Mick Rock Estate Print
By Mick Rock
Located in London, GB
Mercury And May - Limited Edition Mick Rock Estate Print
Freddie Mercury and Brian May in a recording studio, 1974 (photo Mick Rock).
All prints are numbe...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Steve McQueen, 1964
Located in Chicago, IL
Steve McQueen, 1964
Silver Gelatin Print
Edition size: 15
Available sizes:
20 x 16 inches
Artist Bio:
After starting his career at the age of 14 as...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
A King's time, animal, wildlife, black and white photography, Lion
Located in München, BY
Edition of 12
more sizes on request
A big male lion lying proud in the savannah.
Joachim Schmeisser is represented by leading Galleries worldwide. His photographs are among the mos...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
After the Storm (Zuma Beach)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
After 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 # 206.
...
Category
1990s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Fausto Leali - Vintage Photograph - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Fausto Leali is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1980s, it is from a series of vintage photographs of the music, cinema, and art of Italy with celebrities of the ...
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Pulitzer prize-winning playwright Tennessee Williams, signed by Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Pulitzer prize-winning playwright Tennessee Williams, close up portrait with diamond pinky ring, photographed in 1971. Signed by Jack Mitchell in pencil on the print verso. NOTE: minor corner bends/cracks can be slightly matted to conceal. Comes directly from the Jack Mitchell Archives...
Category
1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
$1,275 Sale Price
46% Off
Horns of Africa. By John Kenny. C-type Print with Acrylic Face-Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
The Mursi are one of many groups that practice scarification in the Omo valley and are perhaps the most adept at producing intricate and beautiful patterns. The ritual of scarring, w...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
There is no Solution (Till Death do Us part) - Polaroid, Figurative
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
There is no Solution (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 labe...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Dangerous Perch (1940) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Located in London, GB
Dangerous Perch (1940) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
(Photo by Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images Archive London)
Evacuee Barrie Peacop enjoys an ice cream as he sits on a mine ...
Category
1940s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
The American Actor Frank Wolff - Vintage b/w Photograph - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
The American actor Frank Wolff, on the set of "Salavatore Giuliano".
Vintage b/w photo, good condition.
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Beatles, Black and White Photography, 1960s, 22, 2 x 25, 2 cm
By Michael Ochs
Located in Cologne, DE
The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960. With a line-up comprising John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, they are regarded as the mo...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Sidney Poitier, The Castelloland series. Digital Collage. Color Photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Castelloland works with objects whose uniqueness is fundamental to the narrative of each story, as each image reacts and develops through the interaction between the word and the obj...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
How can you say that (Till Death do us Part) - Polaroid, Figurative
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
How can you say that (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 labe...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Paul Morrissey, director of Andy Warhol’s ‘Trash’ studio portrait
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of filmmaker Paul Morrissey, director of Andy Warhol’s ‘Trash’, photographed for Vogue magazine on September ...
Category
1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
$1,275 Sale Price
49% Off
Anthony Quinn
Located in München, BY
Limited Edition 10
More sizes on request
The photographic work of the internationally well-known Austrian photographer Andreas H. Bitesnich is captivating by its beauty and aestheti...
Category
1990s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Frank Sinatra in Portland
Located in Austin, TX
Stunning capture of the famous jazz singer and musician Frank Sinatra while in Portland, 1957. This portrait features the star sitting on a bench on a dock, leaning back.
Frank Sina...
Category
1950s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
3497
By Ugne Pouwell
Located in London, GB
'3497'
London, United Kingdom 2022
It is a black and white film photograph.
Giclée print on Hahnemühle photo rag Baryta 308 Gsm fine art paper, limited edition of 20.
Photograph...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Portrait Photography
Materials
Film, Photographic Film, Giclée
In the Pyramid Club dressing room
Located in New York, NY
Archival pigment print
Signed and numbered, verso
14 x 11 inches
(Edition of 15)
24 x 20 inches
(Edition of 10)
This photograph is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Category
1990s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Serena Puppet - Vintage Photograph - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Serena Puppet - Vintage Photograph is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1980s.
Puppetry of "Samson and Delilah"
Good conditions with slight foxing.
Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Central Avenue
Located in Kansas City, MO
Tim Pott
Central Avenue
Year: 2024
Archival Pigment Print on
Hahnemuehle Baryta Rag
Framed Size: 13 x 13 x 0.25 inches
COA provided
*Ready to hang; matted and framed in a minimal bl...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
$298 Sale Price
40% Off
C.
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Staging Pictures: Early Polaroids focuses on Stivers' working Polaroid prints, shot with a Hasselblad Polaroid back for instant proofing of lighting and composition of his subjects. ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
$7,000
Bolivia, People, Black and White Photography, 1960s, 23, 5 x 17, 4 cm
Located in Cologne, DE
Hanna Seidel (1925 to 2005) lived and worked in Argentina for many years. She was a world traveller, journeying to South America in the 1950s and to Central America, Japan, India, an...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Fay
By Siri Kaur
Located in Sante Fe, NM
In SHE TELLS ALL, Kaur engages questions of identity performance by exploring an ever-present and wildly diverse American identity: the modern American witch. Witches are contemporar...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
$2,000
Nicolas
By Pedro Slim
Located in New York, NY
Gelatin silver print (Edition of 10)
Signed and dated in pencil, l.r.
Titled in pencil, l.l.
14 x 11 inches, sheet
8 x 8 inches, image
This photograph is offered by ClampArt, locat...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
ALBERTO GIACOMETTI black and white silver gelatin photograph 16x12
Located in Norwich, GB
Frank Herrmann was sent to the Tate Gallery to take photographs of Alberto Giacometti casting an eye over his 1980's exhibition retrospective, exclusively for the Sunday Times newspa...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
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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