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Art Subject: Portrait
L(i)ebe - including the book 'A Half Forgotten Dream'
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
L(i)ebe (Stage of Consciousness) - 2007
Including Stefanie Schneider's new monograph "A Half Forgotten Dream" signed. 192 pages, hardcover, published by Snap Collective, 2024.
fea...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Photo of Iva Zanicchi - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Photo of Iva Zanicchi a Portrait is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1980s.
Good conditions.
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Portrait of Teresa Mozzi - Photo After a Painting - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Teresa Mozzi is an original photograph realized in the early 20th Century.
Good conditions.
Category
Early 20th Century Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Portrait of Bill Margarita - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Bill Margarita is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1950s.
Good conditions.
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Hunter, Greenland by Cristina Mittermeier
Located in Chicago, IL
"The Hunter"
Qaanaaq, Greenland - 2015
20 x 30 in / Edition of 6 - $4,500
Also available:
32 x 48 in / Edition of 6 - $7,500
40 x 60 in / Edition of 6 - $10,500
50 x 75 in / Edit...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Bedroom with Perfect Outfit, Joshua Tree (My Boyfriend's Back)
By Lissa Rivera
Located in New York, NY
Archival pigment print
Signed and numbered, verso
20 x 30 inches, image
(Edition of 5 + 2 APs)
30 x 45 inches, image
(Edition of 3 + 1 AP)
This photograph is offered by ClampArt, ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Cesare Marchi - Photo - 1980
Located in Roma, IT
Cesare Marchi is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1980s.
Good conditions.
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Fred Bongusto - Vintage Photograph - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Fred Bongusto- Vintage Photograph is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s.
Good conditions.
Alfredo Antonio Carlo Buongusto (6 April 1935 – 8 November 2019), ...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Encounter (Timothy Dalton) - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Encounter (Timoty Dalton) is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1980s.
Good conditions.
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Portrait of Claudio Abbado - Vintage Photograph - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Claudio Abbado - Vintage Photograph is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1980s.
Good conditions.
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Fausto Leali and Anna Oxa - 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
Nino Manfredi- Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Nino Manfredi is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s.
Good conditions.
Category
20th Century Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Solitary (Haley and the Birds) - including the book 'A Half Forgotten Dream'
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Solitary (Haley and the Birds) - 2013
including Stefanie Schneider's new monograph "A Half Forgotten Dream" signed. 192 pages, hardcover, published by Snap Collective, 2024.
20x20...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Color 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
Robin Williams in Peter Weir's Dead Poets Society - Photo - 1987
Located in Roma, IT
Robin Williams in Peter Weir's Dead Poets Society is a vintage black and white photograph realized in 1987.
Good conditions.
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Norman Parkinson 'Duchess of Feria, 1982'
Located in New York, NY
Nati Abascal, the Duchess of Feria, photographed with her black stallion ‘Idle Ruler’ in Barbados for Town & Country magazine, in 1982.
Duchess of Feria, 1982
C print
Estate stamped...
Category
1980s Modern Color Photography
Materials
C Print
Freude - including the book 'A Half Forgotten Dream'
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Freude (Stage of Consciousness) - 2007
Including Stefanie Schneider's new monograph "A Half Forgotten Dream" signed. 192 pages, hardcover, published by Snap Collective, 2024.
feat...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Photo of Marina Malfatti - Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Photo of Marina Malfatti is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s.
Good conditions.
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Little Tony - Vintage Photograph - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Little Tony is a vintage photograph realized in the 1970s, it is from a series of vintage photographs of the music, cinema, and art of Italy with celebrities of the 1970s and 1980s.
...
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Rudolf Nureyev – Applying His Make-up 1976 Limited Estate Print
By David Steen
Located in London, GB
Rudolf Nureyev – Applying His Make-up for the Filming of ‘valentino’, London,
1976
Limited Edition David Steen Estate Print
Limited Edition: All prints are limited editions, no ...
Category
1970s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Soldiers - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Soldiers is a vintage photograph realized in the mid-20th Century.
Good conditions.
Category
Mid-20th Century Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Portrait of Martin Heidegger - Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Martin Heidegger is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1960s.
Good conditions.
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Jean-Paul Belmondo - Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Jean-Paul Belmondo is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1960s.
Good conditions.
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Portrait of Maria Sole Baldari - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Maria Sole Baldari is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s.
Good conditions.
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Sonia Braga - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Sonia Braga is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s.
Good conditions.
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Fioretta Mari - 1983
Located in Roma, IT
Fioretta Mari is a vintage black and white photograph realized in 1983.
Good conditions.
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Architecture and Art Photo - San Zaccaria Church - Venice - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Architecture and Art Photo - San Zaccaria Church is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the 1920s. It belongs to masterpiece of art and architecture album meticulously captu...
Category
1920s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Gianni Morandi and Sophie Carle and Alex Pederiva - Photo - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Gianni Minà, Ana Obregon and Gianni Morandi is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1980s.
Good conditions.
Category
20th Century Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Philippe Noiret In Pose - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Philippe Noiret In Pose is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s.
Good conditions.
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Gerry Cranham 'Sundial Hat' Limited Edition Photograph 20x16
Located in San Rafael, CA
British dancer Rosemary Andree wearing a sunhat with a clock face design on a summer's day at the Roehampton Pool. (Photo by Gerry Cranham/Getty Images)
As an authorized Getty Image...
Category
1950s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Gianni Morandi and Laura Becherelli - Photo - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Gianni Morandi and Laura Becherelli is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1980s.
Good conditions.
Category
20th Century Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
A Scene of the Film Au revoir les Enfant - 1987
Located in Roma, IT
A Scene of the Film Au revoir les Enfants is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1987.
Good conditions.
Category
1980s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Artist Helen Frankenthaler with her recent work, signed by Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of famed painter Helen Frankenthaler in her Manhattan studio with recent work, 1971. Signed by Jack Mitchell on the print verso. Comes dire...
Category
1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
$1,525 Sale Price
39% Off
Portrait of Young Franco Battiato - Vintage B/W photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Young Franco Battiato is a vintage black and white photograph on photography paper, realized by an anonymous photographer
Good conditions.
Category
1970s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Operatic Soprano Leontyne Price, 17 x 22" Exhibition Photograph
Located in Senoia, GA
This photograph of famed operatic soprano Leontyne Price was taken in 1980 during an album cover session. One of Mitchell's most beautiful color photogr...
Category
1980s Pop Art Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
$975 Sale Price
35% Off
The Cramps 1979 by Simon Fowler
By Simon Fowler
Located in Austin, TX
Signed limited edition print of The Cramps featuring Lux Interior and Poison Ivy, taken by Simon Fowler in the UK in 1979.
Simon recalls - "Shot this at LFI’s Studio. I say Studio, ...
Category
Late 20th Century Photorealist Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Autographed Portrait of Eva Probst - Original b/w Postcard - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Autographed Portrait of Eva Probst is a beautiful b/w photographic portrait of the German actress, with the added value of a blue ink autograph on the lower margin at the center.
Po...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Paper, Photographic Paper
Modernist Realism Painter Philip Pearlstein, signed by Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Modernist Realism Painter Philip Pearlstein in his Manhattan studio with recent work, 1971. Signed by Jack Mitchell on the print verso. ...
Category
1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
$1,350 Sale Price
46% Off
Apres Ski, Gstaad, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Winter Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Apres Ski, Gstaad, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Portrait Photography
This early 1960s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a group of women r...
Category
1960s American Realist Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
Aaron
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
Norma Jeane #11
Located in Chatsworth, CA
This piece is an original photograph printed from the original camera negative, shot by Bill Carroll in 1945, and printed in 2010. This image depicts a young Norma Jeane at the begin...
Category
1940s Other Art Style Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Anne - Vintage Photograph
Located in Roma, IT
Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Anne is a vintage black and white photograph. realized by Associated Press Photo in the early 1960s.
With the attached paper of the description in It...
Category
1960s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Gianni Morandi and Claudio Villa - Vintage Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Gianni Morandi and Claudio Villa - Vintage Photo is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s.
Good conditions.
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Portrait of Ted Kennedy - Press Photo by Ron Galella - 1960s
By Ron Galella
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Ted Kennedy is a black and white press photograph by Ron Galella dating back to the 1960s.
Print on Baryta paper with a stamp of the photograp...
Category
1960s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Utopia - Signed limited animal fine art print, Colour, Horse with an actress
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
Utopia - Signed limited edition archival pigment print, 2016 - Edition of 10
Aida FOLCH ( Spanish actress) and Utopie ,Barcelona
Tribute to Jean Rochefort ( French actor)
This is an Archival Pigment print on fiber based paper ( Hahnemühle Photo Rag® Baryta 315 gsm , Acid-free and lignin-free paper, Museum quality paper for highest age resistance and a popular alternative to analogue baryta paper). The inks used are also known for their longevity.
Signed + numbered by artist with certificate of authenticity.
Archival pigment print available sizes ( Image size , the white margin is not counted):
40 x 27 cm / 15,75 x 10,63". - Edition of 10
60 x 40 cm / 23,62 x 15,75" - Edition of 5
Laurent Campus is an Italian freelance producer and photographer.
In addition to an academic training in international trade, he has forged a solid musical, pictorial and cinematographic culture which led him gradually and naturally to the photography he has been practicing for more than twenty years full-time professionally.
Its customers are brands that have supported the film industry for many years ( L'Oréal, Renault, DIOR, GENERAL MOTORS, FranckProvost, FranceTV, Canal +, EPSON, CANON, FESTIVAL DE CANNES, HFPA, VUELING, CARL F. BUCHERER , IWC, ParisMatch,…) as artists (filmmakers, actors, musicians) or producers and distributors.
He has gravitated for more than 20 years at the heart of French and international cinema.
Cinema photographer and reporter, making of :
“Cannes Film Festival official” photographer
"Official Golden Globes ceremony” photographer
SONY Spain Photo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Color, Giclée, Pigment, Archival Pigment, Photographic P...
Rod Stewart – Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, 1976 Limited Estate Print
By David Steen
Located in London, GB
Rod Stewart – Beverly Hills, Los Angeles,
1976
Born in London in 1945, rock musician Rod Stewart always dreamt of being a professional football player, until he began touring with various R&B, folk and blues bands. Consequently, he played with such artists as Mick Fleetwood and Jeff Beck until he joined The Faces, with good friend guitarist Ronnie Wood. They released three albums, with A Nod’s as Good as a Wink… To a Blind Horse reaching UK Number Two and US Number Six, and Ooh La La UK Number One and US Number Twenty-One. However, at the same time, Stewart was enjoying even greater success as a solo artist with hits like ‘Lady Day’ and ‘Maggie May’ and the group finally split. Rod Stewart remains one of the world’s biggest stars, although he’s equally famous for his succession of beautiful blonde girlfriends as he is for his music
Limited Edition David Steen Estate Print
Limited Edition: All prints are limited editions, no further prints are produced once sold
Paper size - 44 x 31 " / 111 x 78 cm
Limited to 20 only this size
All prints are bespoke and printed to order
stamped and numbered by the Estate
Copyright: © David Steen / The David Steen Archive
David Steen’s introduction to photography was as a 15-year-old school leaver joining Picture Post where he had the good luck to be taken under the wing of the legendary Bert Hardy as an assistant. It was the ultimate training ground in photojournalism, and the launch pad for his career.
David’s reunion with Picture Post after doing his National Service (as special photographer based in Eygpt, covering the major trouble zones) was short-lived. The magazine was losing ground and closed. He moved to Fleet Street, first to a bright new Mirror title, Woman’s Sunday Mirror, where incidentally he picked up First Prize in Encyclopaedia Britannica’s Best Pictures of the Year Award for his sequence of ‘Birth of a Baby’, the progress of a young woman delivering her own baby under hypnosis.
He was 21, the youngest ever to be awarded this prize. There followed time as a staff photographer with The Daily Mail; Fleet Street was the hub of the world. Then on to freelancing…Queen magazine, Nova, the Sunday Times Magazine, international magazines around the world, over the years covering projects as diverse as riots in Harlem to a film set in Acapulco, a battered wives’ refuge to the Queen and family at Sandringham: the hopeless, the homeless, the glitterati. Trained on the maxim ‘every picture tells a story’ he has focused on film stars, actors, criminals, politicians, prime ministers and countless men, women and children going about their everyday lives.
David Steen believes himself to be lucky. He thinks lucky; luck is being in the right place at the right time, having the luck to have a loving family and enduring friends and winning a three-year battle against cancer.
Asked by aspiring photographers for his best advice, his stock reply is: ‘Get up early.’
David Steen † 1936 – 2015
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Category
1970s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Dan Auerbach "Ride" San Francisco 2022 by Larry Niehues
Located in Austin, TX
Dan Auerbach “Ride”, San Francisco 2022, signed limited edition prints by The Black Keys official photographer Larry Niehues.
The Black Keys relationship with Larry Niehues began t...
Category
2010s Photorealist Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film
Pulitzer prize-winning playwright Tennessee Williams
Located in Senoia, GA
8 x 10" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Pulitzer prize-winning playwright Tennessee Williams photographed January 20, 1966. This is a print tha...
Category
1960s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
$400 Sale Price
20% Off
Starlight (Haley and the Birds) - including the book 'A Half Forgotten Dream'
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Starlight (Haley and the Birds) - 2013
including Stefanie Schneider's new monograph "A Half Forgotten Dream" signed. 192 pages, hardcover, published by Snap Collective, 2024.
20x2...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Sculptor Marisol, (Marisol Escobar), iconic portrait signed by Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of sculptor Marisol, 1968, 7/25, signed by Jack Mitchell lower right and in pencil on the reverse. Comes directly from the Jack Mitchell A...
Category
1960s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
$1,450 Sale Price
42% Off
Lucybelle Crater and her 15 year old son's friend
Located in New York, NY
From a portfolio of ten gelatin silver prints from original Meatyard negatives (1959-71)
Printed April 1974
Edition of 130
Credit stamp, verso
7 x 7 inches, image
15 x 12 inches, mount
This photograph is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
An optician by trade, Ralph Eugene Meatyard was a self-described “dedicated amateur” photographer. He pursued his own vision to produce an exquisitely enigmatic, widely admired body of work. Meatyard began taking photographs in 1950, roaming the backwoods and towns in Kentucky, experimenting with framing, multiple exposures, and blurring to produce haunting, abstracted images of natural and manmade environments. In the late 1950s, he began incorporating monstrous, oversized latex masks...
Category
1970s American Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Untitled (East Side Series)
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original gelatin silver print by American social documentary photographer Milton Rogovin depicting a resident of Buffalo's East Side in the early 1960's.
Mr. Rogovin chronicled t...
Category
1960s Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
"Daniel", 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 Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
untitled (Jeffrey)
By Frank Yamrus
Located in New York, NY
Gelatin silver print (Edition of 15)
Signed, dated, and numbered, verso
From the series, "Rapture"
This photograph is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Please note that...
Category
1990s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Kate Bush
Located in Austin, TX
Absolutely stunning portrait of singer Kate Bush by acclaimed photographer, Gered Mankowitz, taken in his London studio in 1978.
Kate Bush has seen a huge r...
Category
Late 20th Century Photorealist Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Portrait of Bruce Willis - Vintage b/w Photograph - 1987
Located in Roma, IT
Emmy Award 1987. Bruce Willis holding his Emmy for "Moonlighting".
Vintage Photo, good condition.
Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Sunny Rays (Beachshoot)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Sunny Rays (Beachshoot) - 2005
20x20cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Signature label and Certificate.
Artist Inventory...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Girls (Beachshoot)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Girls (Beachshoot) - 2005
20x20cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Signature label and Certificate.
Artist Inventory No. ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Sophia Fountain
By Ormond Gigli
Located in New York, NY
Sophia Fountain, 1960
color coupler print
16 x 16"
ed. of 30
Category
1950s Modern Color Photography
Photorealist painter Jon Carsman in his Manhattan studio with new work
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of photorealist painter Jon Carsman in his Manhattan studio with new work, 1974. Comes directly from the Jack Mitchell Archives with a cert...
Category
1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
$1,350 Sale Price
32% Off
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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