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Art Subject: Portrait
Blur - Oversize Signed Limited Edition Print
Located in London, GB
Blur - Giant Oversize Signed Limited Edition Print
Britpop band Blur, London, 1995
From left: Graham Coxon, Damon Albarn, Alex James, Dave Rowntree
Pho...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Charlotte Rampling (1966) Silver Gelatin Print
Located in London, GB
Charlotte Rampling (1966)
(Photo By Phillip Harrington)
7th September 1966
Charlotte Rampling and Joanna Pettit, gambling at The Pair of Shoes, a...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Dolly Fritz (1961) - Limited Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Dolly Fritz (1961) - Limited Estate Stamped
(Photo By Slim Aarons)
Socialite Dolly Fritz,
San Francisco, 1961.
Additional Information:
Unframed
Paper Size: 16x16''
Printed L...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Elton John and Goldie Hawn- Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Elton John and Goldie Hawn is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s.
Good conditions.
Category
20th Century Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Bryan Ferry - Oversize Signed Limited Edition Print
Located in London, GB
Bryan Ferry - Oversize Signed Limited Edition Print
Bryan Ferry of Roxy Music poses at the Raymond Revue Bar, a theatre and strip club, in Soho, London
F...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Color
"Neiman Marcus, Derek #4", New York, NY, 1995
By Jose Picayo
Located in Hudson, NY
This photograph is printed on Japanese Paper.
The price is for an unframed photograph.
11" X 14" Edition of 25.
The Robin Rice Gallery is pleased to announce, 25 Years of Polaroi...
Category
1990s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Martha Hyer Glamour Portrait
Located in Austin, TX
This beautiful vintage portrait features Martha Hyer posed glamorously in the studio.
Martha Hyer was an American actress. She is best remembered for her role as Gwen French in Some...
Category
1950s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Rendille Moran at Nyiru by John Kenny. 26.5 x 18" portrait with Acrylic Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
I met this stunning Rendille moran (warrior) in the shade of trees near the base of Mount Nyiru. Spring waters, flowing from the huge mountain plateau above, ensure year-round greenery in this area of great aridity.
The morans of both the Rendille and the Samburu wear beautifully ornate necklaces. Each design is specific to warriors within a clan and to a time in history (the ‘age-set’ that a young man enters after circumcision). The necklace thus identities his group and places him in the chronology of his tribe. A tribal elder can look at a warrior’s necklace...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
James Sparshatt La Dama Del Callejón Large Print on Brushed Aluminium, 2001
Located in Coltishall, GB
Every Sunday afro-Cubans gather in the Callejon de Hammel to play the drums and sing the harsh vocals of rumba.
The Spirit of the Revolution series documents the generation of Cuban...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Metal
Sylva Koscina - Vintage Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Sylva Koscina - Vintage Photo is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1960s.
Good conditions.
Sylva Koscina is considered one of the be...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Anthony Delon , Sophie Duez and Alberto Lattuada in A Thorn - Photo - 1986
Located in Roma, IT
Anthony Delon , Sophie Duez and Alberto Lattuada in A Thorn in the Heart is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1980s.
Good conditions.
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Elizabeth Taylor in Window Light
Located in Austin, TX
This black and white portrait features actress Elizabeth Taylor in full costume, posed elegantly in window light.
Elizabeth Taylor was a British-American actress, businesswoman, and...
Category
1960s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Audrey Gets Her Hair Done (1952) Silver Gelatin Fibre Print - Oversized
Located in London, GB
Audrey Gets Her Hair Done (1952) Silver Gelatin Fibre Print - Oversized
(Photo Phillip Harrington / Alamy Archives)
Actress and fashion model Audrey Hepburn preparing for a scene ...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Fire of the Himba by John Kenny. Portrait, Unmounted C-type Print, 2010
Located in Coltishall, GB
Himba women have a devotion to red ochre powder and butter fat that exceeds even the Hamer of the Omo valley in Ethiopia. They apply huge amounts to almost their entire bodies inclu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Himba Child l by John Kenny. 26.5 x 18" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
In the far north of Namibia as you head towards the border with Angola at Epupa Falls, barely visible tracks radiate off the main dirt road into bush and disappear across sandy, dry ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Jerry Hall, New York City 1985
Located in Berlin, DE
Printed in 2011. Signed in pencil; titled, dated, inscribed and with the photographers black copyright stamp, on the verso. Number 10 from a limited edition of 25.
Category
1880s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
The San Man by John Kenny. 26.5 x 18" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
A picture of joy. KhoiSan bushman from Namibia
John Kenny’s work is all shot on location in some of the remotest corners of Africa. His images are all taken with natural light and...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
The Fairground by John Kenny. Portrait, C-type Print with Acrylic Face-Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
A Turkana elder photographed by John Kenny in Kenya.
John uses simple natural light and builds primitive makeshift studios from locally acquired white sheets! The suffuse light allo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
La Romera by James Sparshatt. 36 x 36” photograph printed direct on aluminium
Located in Coltishall, GB
On a musical and pleasure seeking pilgrimage… during Las Romerias de Mayo festival in Holguín.
The Spirit of the Revolution series documents the generation of Cubans that saw the dr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Metal
Bat For Lashes Heart - Signed Limited Edition Oversize Print
Located in London, GB
Bat For Lashes (Natasha Khan) in Brighton, January 2009
MOJO Magazine feature
Photo by Kevin Westenburg
Unframed
Signed and numbered by the artist.
Edition of 3 only at this size
OTHER SIZES AVAILABLE :
Size 1.
16 x 20"
Signed and numbered edition of 25. cost $ 2,500
Size 2.
20 x 24"
Signed and numbered edition of 25. cost $ 2,950
Size 3.
24 x 30"
Signed and numbered edition of 25. cost $ 3,375
Size 4.
30 x 40"
Signed and numbered edition of 10 (+2 a/p). cost $ 5,605
Size 5.
40 x 60"
Signed and numbered edition of 3 (1 a/p). cost $ 18,500
About the artist:
Kevin Westenberg is famed for his creation of provocative and electrifying images of world-class musicians, artists and movie stars for over 25 years. His technique of lighting, colour and composition has helped to produce his own unique visual style.
Shortly after receiving an Architecture degree he moved to London where he’s been based since 1983. Westenberg is self-taught and learned his trade working for the UK inkies “New Musical Express” and “Melody Maker” mainly throughout the late 80’s and 90’s documenting amongst others all the UK ‘Britpop’ bands.
The breakthrough came in 1993-1994 with the release of Sting’s Ten Summoner’s Tales and Mary J Blige’s Share My World. These two album covers changed the perception of the work worldwide and thus began a run of 20 years of commissions and choice opportunities.
For the last 25 years, his musical heritage includes portraits of Radiohead, Thom Yorke, Coldplay, White Stripes, Jane's Addiction, Sting, Bjork, Nirvana, Jeff Buckley, Luther Vandross, Nine Inch Nails, Stone Roses, The Pixies, Paul Weller, Rufus Wainwright, Michael Stipe, U2, Mary J. Blige, R.E.M., Black Sabbath, Massive Attack, BB King, The Rolling Stones, PJ Harvey, Marilyn Manson, Pete Doherty, Oasis, Soundgarden, Jake Bugg, and Bon Jovi among many others. Also included are 100’s of albums, singles, magazine & book covers from around the world. He’s also been chosen as official photographer for the LIVE 8 Hyde Park event in 2005 and for Led Zeppelin reunion concert at the 02 Arena, London.
The work & interest also include a wide range of artists portraits beyond the music world. David Lynch, Paul Auster, The Coen Brothers, Rupert Friend, Sir Tom Stoppard, Orla Kiely...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Pigment
PJ Harvey - signed Limited Edition Oversize print (2000)
Located in London, GB
PJ Harvey - Signed Limited Edition Oversize print
NME Cover Shoot
September 27 2000
London NME COVER SHOOT
Unframed
Signed and numbered by the artist....
Category
Early 2000s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Queen Elizabeth - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Queen Elizabeth is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1960s.
Good conditions.
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Tina Chow
Located in New York, NY
Listing includes framing with UV plexi, free express shipping and a 14-day return policy.
Four 4.5 x 3.25 inch unique vintage Kodak prints featuring Tina Chow. Prints are on active consignment from the estate of Antonio Lopez. Purchase includes certificates of authenticity from the estate of Antonio Lopez. These Kodak prints are not signed by Antonio Lopez.
Frame has some minor damage and is note in the pictures. The price reflects this with a reduction compared to similar listings.
Antonio Lopez Biography -
The foremost fashion illustrator of the 1970s and 80s, Antonio (as he signed his work) was and remains one of the most highly regarded and influential figures in the fashion world. While not initially known as a photographer, Antonio was rarely without his favorite Instamatic camera, and as his career progressed he turned increasingly to photography to create fashion stories, portraits, and elaborate mise-en-scènes.
A serial Svengali, as the writer Karin Nelson noted: “Lopez brilliantly transformed the women in his world. Under his tutelage, Jerry Hall, a long tall Texan he met at Paris’s Club Sept, evolved into a golden goddess. He put Jessica Lange in gold lamé evening dresses after discovering her in Paris studying mime, and gave aspiring model Tina Lutz her start (and an introduction to future husband Michael...
Category
1970s Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Polaroid
Fula Nomad at Golondi by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait with Acrylic Face-Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
The man was sat in the shade during a huge village market in a place called Golondi in Niger. We drank the salty, sweet tea that the nomads of the Sahel and...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
El Campesino by James Sparshatt. 36" x 36" 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
The Italian Actress Antonella Lualdi - Vintage Photograph - 1977
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The Italian Actress Antonella Lualdi in a scene from "è stato così". Rome, 7/2/1977.
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Lord Heathcoat-Amory - Vintage Photograph - 1958
Located in Roma, IT
Lord Heathcoat-Amory is a black and white vintage photo, realized in 1958, by Aldo Durazzi .
The photo depicts an elegnant portrait of the the Chancellor of the Exchanger, Lord D...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Cecily Brown
By Marco Anelli
Located in New York, NY
Signed and numbered, verso
“Artist Studios New York” is an editorial project by Marco Anelli that explores the New York studios of the major protagonists in the contemporary art scene.
Artists include: Alex Katz, Alfredo Jaar, Anne Collier, Anthony McCall, Banks Violette, Cecily Brown, Dan Colen, Dana Schutz, Elizabeth Peyton, Francesco Clemente, Glenn Ligon, Jack Pierson, Joan Jonas...
Category
2010s Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Actor, Producer, and Director John Houseman
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of actor, producer, director John Houseman , 1973. Comes directly from the Jack Mitchell Archives with a certificate of authenticity.
Jac...
Category
1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
$1,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Fledgling
Located in Sante Fe, NM
From Zoë Zimmerman’s series, ‘Her Dream’. Zoë is a Taos, New Mexico based studio photographer utilizing metaphor to subvert the Everyday and provoke the ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Alain Delon in The Assassination of Trotsky - Photo - 1972
Located in Roma, IT
Alain Delon in The Assassination of Trotsky is a vintage black and white photograph realized in 1972.
Good conditions.
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
"Barack Obama, Occidental College, No. 29" Lisa Jack, President Photography
Located in New York, NY
Lisa Jack
Barack Obama, Occidental College No. 29, 1980
Signed, dated, and numbered on the reverse
Gelatin silver print
Sight 21 1/2 x 14 1/2 inches
Edition 4/50
Provenance:
M&B, Lo...
Category
1980s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
$4,400 Sale Price
20% Off
Elvis Presley 1956 portrait
Located in Austin, TX
Fine art print of Elvis Presley from the collection of acclaimed photographer. Lynn Goldsmith, taken in 1956
These prints are open edition and come with full certification.
Availab...
Category
Late 20th Century Photorealist Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Dagoberto by James Sparshatt - Framed Palladium Platinum Print Photograph
Located in Coltishall, GB
Dagoberto began playing his guitar in the Casa de la Trova in Holguin, Cuba, in 1944. Sixty years later in 2004 I had the pleasure to sit with him in the same bar on a day to celebra...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Other Art Style Black and White Photography
Materials
Platinum
El Barbudo by James Sparshatt. 36 x 36" Photographic Print on Brushed Aluminium
Located in Coltishall, GB
The bearded one… in Old Havana.
The Spirit of the Revolution series documents the generation of Cubans that saw the dramatic changes of 1959 as young adults. They have a strength of...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Metal
Rock Hudson and Linda Evans - Original Vintage Photograph - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
Rock Hudson and Linda Evans in a scene from the television series "Dynasty".
Category
1980s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Bogdan, Ukraine
Located in New York, NY
Bogdan
Ukraine
2017
Signed and numbered, verso
Archival pigment print
37 x 37 inches
(Edition of 5 + 2 APs)
$7,500
17 x 17 inches
(Edition of 10 + 2 APs)
$4,000
Please note that...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ann Blyth
Located in Austin, TX
Ann Blyth is an American actress and singer, often cast in Hollywood musicals, but also successful in dramatic roles. For her performance as Veda Pierce in the 1945 film Mildred Pier...
Category
1950s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
$495
David Bowie by Denis O'Regan signed artist proof print
Located in Austin, TX
David Bowie in Vancouver, Canada in 1983 by acclaimed photographer Denis O'Regan, who was at the time, the official photographer on Bowie's "Serious Moonlight" world tour
Signed 16x20" artist proof...
Category
Late 20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Himba Child ll by John Kenny. 26.5 x 18" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
A young Himba child from Namibia
John Kenny’s work is all shot on location in some of the remotest corners of Africa. His images are all taken with natural...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Marta Marchi as Strega
Located in Sante Fe, NM
In the series “Comedy of Double Meaning’ Japanese photographer Hiroshi Watanabe photographs members of a Venetian theatrical troupe, the Pantakin Company, dressed as Pulcinella, Inna...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Portrait of Bjork - signed Limited Edition Oversize print
Located in London, GB
BJORK
APRIL 23 1998 NEW YORK.
VOX MAGAZINE COVER SHOOT.
Exquisite print of the uniquely beautiful Icelandic pop star - close up shot
20x16 inches paper size
signed
limited editio...
Category
1990s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
John Kenny Fula Shepherd Boy Small Portrait, Unmounted C-type Print, 2008
Located in Coltishall, GB
John met this young Fula shepherd as he was dragging three uncooperative goats towards a dusty livestock market in a remote part of Niger. As a Fula nomad this young boy would spend...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
El Caballero by James Sparshatt - Photograph printed direct on brushed aluminium
Located in Coltishall, GB
The gentleman… a man of calm dignity and endessly kind eyes in Old Havana in 2016.
The Spirit of the Revolution series documents the generation of Cubans that saw the dramatic chan...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Metal
Tea For Two, limited edition photograph, archival pigment, signed and numbered
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Tea For Two, limited edition photograph, archival pigment, signed and numbered
My photographic series Tales of Heroines is a collection of stories about the lives of young women tol...
Category
2010s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Fula Shepherd Boy by John Kenny. Portrait, Unmounted C-type Print, 2008
Located in Coltishall, GB
John met this young Fula shepherd as he was dragging three uncooperative goats towards a dusty livestock market in a remote part of Niger. As a Fula nomad this young boy would spend...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Lullaby
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Maggie Taylor creates evocative single-scene narratives in her whimsical and elaborate photomontages. Working intuitively, Taylor combines 19th Century photographs, found objects, ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Myngaby John Kenny. 54 x 36" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount 2012
Located in Coltishall, GB
For the Mumuhuila hair indicates social status. Hairstyles, like necklaces, change throughout a lady’s adolescent and adult life. For an adult like Mynga, the number of dreadlock str...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Karepo Nawa by John Kenny. Portrait, Unmounted C-type Print, 2010
Located in Coltishall, GB
I met this young Himba girl near to a place called Etengwa in the far north of Namibia. We trekked a few kilometres in the midday heat, over a rocky hill to a small village within wh...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Hausa and Fula Cultures Collide by John Kenny. C-Print with Acrylic Face Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
John met this young Fula girl as she was walking across the barren, sandy monotones of Niger’s Sahel. She was wearing an amazingly intricate arrangement of beads and a carefully craf...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Hausa and Fula Cultures Collide by John Kenny. Portrait, Unmounted C-Print
Located in Coltishall, GB
John met this young Fula girl as she was walking across the barren, sandy monotones of Niger’s Sahel. She was wearing an amazingly intricate arrangement of beads and a carefully craf...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Frank Zappa by Lynn Goldsmith
Located in Austin, TX
Signed limited edition print of Frank Zappa taken in 1978 by Lynn Goldsmith
Signed limited edition #2/20 - signed, numbered and titled by Lynn Goldsmith
Category
Late 20th Century Photorealist Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Behind the Great Mosque in Djenné by John Kenny. Portrait, Unmounted C TypePrint
Located in Coltishall, GB
This young Fulani boy with his huge turban wrap was wandering through the backstreets of the great mosque in Djenne, an amazing structure which is the largest mud building on earth. ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Himba Siblings by John Kenny. Portrait, Unmounted C-type Print, 2010
Located in Coltishall, GB
John Kenny’s work is all shot on location in some of the remotest corners of Africa. His images are all taken with natural light and his subjects in their day to day attire.
The C-t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Actors of The Film Hamburger Hill - Photo - 1988
Located in Roma, IT
Actors of The film Hamburger Hill in is an vintage black and white photograph realized in 1988.
Good conditions.
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Fashion Designer Willi Smith, Color 17 x 22" Exhibition Photograph
Located in Senoia, GA
Fashion designer Willi Smith, photographed in April 1984. One of Mitchell's most beautiful color photographs. This exhibition print is 17 x 22". Comes dire...
Category
1980s Pop Art Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
$975 Sale Price
35% Off
James Sparshatt Ritmo del Autobus Photography, Framed Palladium Platinum Print
Located in Coltishall, GB
It was Christmas day and we were heading to Santa Maria beach in a hired Cuban school bus about 40 minutes from Centro Havana. The girls of Rumba Morena beg...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Platinum, Glass
Bob Marley
By Guido Harari
Located in Austin, TX
Signed limited edition print of Bob Marley by Guido Harari, taken in 1980 in Milan, Italy.
Available in the following sizes:
A. 11” x 16” - Edition 50
B. 16” x 20” - Edition 50
C. 20” x 28” - Edition 25
D. 32” x 44” - Edition 10
E. 44” x 59” - Edition 5
Guido Harari has photographed many music legends in his prolific career in Italy.
Lou Reed said about him: "I'm always happy when Guido takes my picture because I know it will be a musical picture...
Category
Late 20th Century Photorealist Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Pure Wodaabe by John Kenny. Portrait, Unmounted C-type Print, 2009
Located in Coltishall, GB
A portrait of a young Wodaabe man from a town called Bororo in Niger. Bororo is often regarded as the ‘capital city’ of his people. The name Bororo is also commonly used to describe ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
$886 Sale Price
20% Off
Korohan by John Kenny. Portrait, Unmounted C-type Print, 2009
Located in Coltishall, GB
A Wodaabe man in Niger in 2009.
John Kenny’s work is all shot on location in some of the remotest corners of Africa. His images are all taken with natural light and his subjects in ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary 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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