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Art Subject: Portrait
Time Traveller (Wastelands) - Contemporary, Analog, Polaroid, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Time Traveller (Wastelands) - 2003 20x20cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Artist inventory N...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Lady with a Fly
Located in München, BY
Edition of 7 Portrait of a girl. Mursi ethnic group, Ethiopia. This Mursi woman is wearing a hat that doubles as a sumptuously decorated piece of kitchenware - most objects here have multiple functions - but that also struck me as having something of early modern Europe about it. The resemblance of the fly that landed on her face as this photograph was taken to the mouches (literally 'flies') worn by European women in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was purely a happy accident! Olga Michi...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

A widow bird sate mourning for her love (Heather's Dream) - Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
A widow bird sate mourning for her love (Heather's Dream) - 2013 part of "The Girl Behind the White Picket Fence" featuring Udo Kier and Heather Megan Christie 38x48cm, Edition of ...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Burlesque Series, Delilah Right Red Hand I, The Whoopee Club, London
Located in Cambridge, GB
Richard Heeps became well-known for his Burlesque Photography after he spent 2003 capturing performances in Britain & America. He spent a lot on time with his subjects on a number of...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Nude Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

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

Michael Stipe by Kevin Westenberg Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
Michael Stipe Michael Stipe, R.E.M., Los Angeles, 1996 by Kevin Westenberg- Signed Limited Edition Kevin Westenberg is famed for his creation of prov...
Category

1990s Modern Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

North Shore Yacht Club, Salton Sea - Spring Sale - 20th Century, Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'North Shore Yacht Club I' - Salton Sea (California Badlands) - 1998 50x60cm with white border, Image size: 48x46cm, Edition 2/10, analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on a Polaroid, Certificate and Signature label, artist Inventory No. 585.02, Not mounted. The artist Stefanie Schneider has produced a unique body of work because she was the first to utilize expired Polaroid instant photography. Embracing the ‘imperfections’ this medium can produce Stefanie’s artwork was the inspiration of Instagram and the catalyst that motivated Dr. Florian Kaps to rescue the sole remaining Polaroid film production factory in Holland. Saving the last production equipment just before their planned destruction, therefore saving millions of vintage Polaroid cameras from obsolescence. Hows that for an artist having an effect on her medium of choice! The ‘Impossible film project’ saved the production factory and then a Polish business man bought ‘Impossible film’ and the actual Polaroid company to bring the two back together resulting in the so called ‘Polaroid Originals’ and giving it to his millennial son. (I hear he might also get Fuji film company for Christmas) Stefanie Schneider purchases Polaroid instant film and uses it only at it’s best possible outcome for her planned film shoots. The location, sets, costumes, actors and stories all come from Schneider but that’s just the beginning. The stories and their production take place in the high desert near Joshua Tree in California but the post production is in Berlin, Germany. The chosen photographs are rephotographed to make a negative. Following with the analogue medium, Schneider enlarges and prints old school in a self designed and built analogue darkroom in an old factory studio in Berlin. The largest of her hand printed art works measure 125cm or 49 inches in width with her vintage ‘Colenta’ developing machine. Schneider designed and built her own enlarger to properly fit her concept with the biggest ‘Durst’ enlarger ever built and turned on it’s side so as to print even bigger than was possible in it’s original design and rolls on custom tracks. Schneider created a film production movie set for her biggest film concepts from all her proceeds on an organic (off grid) farm in California where she eats only what she grows. Complete with garden, greenhouse and chicken coop. (It’s also a sanctuary for animals as no meat consumption is permitted) Vintage travel trailers dot the farm where production ideas develop. a costume trailer, film storage in the vintage refrigerators...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

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

David Boyce & Manuel Gonzalez multiple exposure, nude, signed by Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph, signed by Jack Mitchell. Comes directly from the Jack Mitchell Archives with a certificate of authenticity. This photograph was from a session for After Dark magazine and was selected and signed by Jack Mitchell as one of his favorites. Jack’s artist statement on his work for the magazine: “After Dark was a magazine of entertainment, theater and the arts. It was a popular magazine, with a gay slant, enjoyed by many gay men, and some broad minded women and men. As well as (I learned years later) many closeted male youngsters. The magazine was ahead of its time, as advertisers were reluctant to place ads in an essentially gay magazine at that time. Today they swarm like bees to place their own hot ads in gay publications. I had been photographing on assignment for Dance Magazine well before After Dark was created. Being a friend of William (Bill) Como, the Editor, and being gay, I was called into service, for the life of the publication, to photograph many of the handsome young men and women, who were featured in After Dark. Needless to say, this was enjoyable work for me, Because, mixed in with the hot-looking young guys and gals sent to my studio were some famed performers like Debbie Reynolds, Giancarlo Giannini, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Natalie Wood, Placido Domingo, Sergio Franco...
Category

1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Into Eternity (Wastelands) - Contemporary, Analog, Polaroid, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Into Eternity (Wastelands) - 2003 20x20cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Artist inventory Number 893. Signature label and Certificate. Not mounted. For sale is a piece from the Wastelands series. Reality with the Tequila: Stefanie Schneider’s Fertile Wasteland by James Scarborough “How much more than enough for you for I for both of us darling?” (E. E. Cummings) Until he met her, his destiny was his own. Petty and inconsequential but still his own. He was cocksure and free, young and unaccountable, with dark hair and aquiline features. His expression was always pensive, a little troubled, but not of a maniacal sort. He was more bored than anything else. With a heart capable of violence. Until she met him, she was pretty but unappreciated. Her soul had registered no seismic activity. Dustbowl weary, she’d yet to see better days. A languorous body, a sweet face with eyes that could be kind if so inclined. Until she met him, she had not been inclined. It began when he met her. She was struck in an instant by his ennui. The sum of their meeting was greater than the imbroglios and chicaneries of their respective existences. He was struck by the blank slate look in her eyes. They walked, detached and focused on the immediate, obscenely unaware of pending change across a terrain of mountainous desert, their eyes downcast and world-weary, unable to account for the buoyant feeling in her heart. His hard-guy shtick went from potentiality to ruse. The gun was not a weapon but a prop, a way to pass time. Neither saw the dark clouds massing on the horizon. They found themselves alone in the expanses of time, unaware of the calamity that percolated even as they posed like school kids for the pictures. Happiness brimmed in that wild terrain. Maybe things were beginning to look up. That’s when the shooting started… Stefanie Schneider assumes that our experience of lived reality (buying groceries, having a relationship with someone, driving a car) does not correspond to the actual nature of lived reality itself, that what we think of as reality is more like a margarita without the tequila. Stefanie Schneider’s reality is reality with the tequila. She does not abolish concepts that orient us, cause and effect, time, plot, and storyline, she just plays with them. She invites us to play with them, too. She offers us a hybrid reality, more amorphous than that with a conventional subject, verb, and predicate. Open-ended, this hybrid reality does not resolve itself. It frustrates anyone with pedestrian expectations but once we inebriate those expectations away, her work exhilarates us and even the hangover is good. An exploration of how she undermines our expectation of what we assume to be our lived reality, the reasons why she under- mines our expectations, and the end result, as posited in this book, will show how she bursts open our apparatus of perception and acknowledges life’s fluidity, its density, its complexity. Its beauty. She undermines expectations of our experience of reality with odd, other-worldly images and with startling and unexpected compressions and expansions of time and narrative sequence. The landscape seems familiar enough, scenes from the Old West: broad panoramic vistas with rolling hills dotted with trees and chaparral, dusty prairies with trees and shrubs and craggy rocks, close-up shots of trees. But they’re not familiar. These mis-en-scenes radiate an unsettling Picasso Blue Period glow or the intense celestial blue of the cafe skies that Van Gogh painted in the south of France. Yellow starbursts punctuate images as if seen through the viewfinder of a flying saucer. At the same time, objects appear both vintage and futuristic, the landscape of a post-apocalyptic world. Landscapes change seemingly at random as do the seasons. Stefanie Schneider offers no indication of how time flows here, except that it conceivably turns in on itself and then goes its merry way. Time is a river whose source is a deep murky spring which blusters about with an occasional swirling eddy. That Stefanie Schneider thwarts an easy reading is obvious but why does she do this? Since she will not countenance anything linear, logical, or sequential, and because she does not relish anything concrete and specific, she has to roil things up a bit. Nor does she seem comfortable with a book of images that is settled, discrete, and accountable. Instead she wants to create a panoply of anxious moments...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

After (Wastelands) - Contemporary, Analog, Polaroid, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
After (Wastelands) - 2003 20x20cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Artist inventory Number 18799. Signature label and Certi...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

John Lennon & Yoko Ono 1980
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Allan Tannenbaum "John Lennon & Yoko Ono 1980" Inkjet print Paper size: 19 x 13 Inches Image Size: 12 7/8 x 8 5/8 Edition Number: From the second edition of 200 Editions: First edition of 200 (C-print Colors, Silver gelatin print - Black & white) 1988 Second edition of 200 - Ink Jet Print (Giclee) - 2000 Third edition of 50 - C-Print & Silver gelatin print - 2007 - 2008 Signed, Numbered, Titled & dated in pencil by the artist. Condition: In Excellent Condition Provenance: All of our Allan Tannenbaum prints come from The Williams Gallery (via William Back) which was the exclusive representative of Allan Tannenbaum from 1980 to 2006 About the John Lennon collection: In November 1980, on the eve of John Lennon's untimely murder by a lone gunman, photographer Allan Tannenbaum had unique and total access to John and Yoko...
Category

1980s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

Inkjet

Rolling Stones, Keith & Pug, Sarum Chase, Beggars Banquet, Black & White Print
Located in Los Angeles, CA
24 x 36 in (68.6 x 91.4 cm) Digital C-Type Print Edition of 30 Prints are sold unframed.
Category

1960s Black and White Photography

Materials

Digital Pigment

Brooke Shields, Martin Hewittin - Endless Love - Vintage Photo - 1981
Located in Roma, IT
Brooke Shields, Martin Hewittin - Endless Love - Vintage Photo is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1981. Good conditions.
Category

1980s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Winter Blues
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THIS PIECE: "As a self-portrait artist, I use the observation of my surroundings, personal experiences, and my own personal growth to create conceptual images. I am a highly positive person and this positivity often reflects in my work delivering images with a strong message on personal growth, self-love, and empowerment. I want my images to give hope and teach people to appreciate themselves, to love, dream, and believe that everything is possible if we believe it is. My images often feature simple backgrounds, saturated colors, and characteristic props like flowers, plants, origami, or balloons. creating dreamlike images both rich aesthetically and in meaning." - Fares Micue...
Category

2010s Color Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Miss Eris #28 - Contemporary, Polaroid, 21st Century, Nude, Women, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
MISS ERIS #28 [From the series Les Foxy Femmes de Carmen De Vos] Art print based on an expired Polaroid photograph mounted on Dilette 2mm - 30x30cm - gloss UV Protection Hand signe...
Category

2010s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

C Print, Color, Polaroid

Boderline. Portrait. Limited edition color photograph. Fashion
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 explo...
Category

2010s Color Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Pigment

'Trash' Warhol Superstars Jane Forth & Joe Dallesandro for After Dark Magazine
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin exhibition photograph of Warhol Superstar and Vogue model Jane Forth & Joe Dallesandro, stars of Warhol's 'Trash' for 'Afte...
Category

1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Rapscallion (Stage of Consciousness) - featuring Udo Kier
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Rapscallion (Stage of Consciousness) - 2007 20x24cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and signature label. Artist Invento...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Three Times a Lady (Till Death Do Us Part) - Contemporary, Woman, Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Three Times a Lady (Till Death Do Us Part) - 2005, 38x37cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist ...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Parchment Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Afar Woman of Assaita. By John Kenny C-type Print with Acrylic Face Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
The town of Assaita is in the fiercely hot lowlands of the Rift Valley at the very north eastern edges of Ethiopia, near to Djibouti. Unlike Ethiopia’s highlands, which are renowned for their long history of orthodox Christianity...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

C Print

Tales of Bitter Doom #04 - Polaroid, 21st Century, Contemporary, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Tales of Bitter Doom #04' by Carmen De Vos, Edition of 7, 30x30cm, 2018 digital c-print, based on a Polaroid mounted on Dibond - gloss coating, hand signed & numbered by artist on ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

C Print, Color, Polaroid

The Pink Dress (Stage of Consciousness) - featuring Radha Mitchell
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Pink Dress (Stage of Consciousness) - 2007 40x48cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and signature label. Artist Inve...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Funk in Tuscany, 1969 - Fashion in Yellow Outfit with James Brown Record
Located in Brighton, GB
Funk in Tuscany, 1969 - Fashion in Yellow Outfit with James Brown Record by Slim Aarons 16" x 20" print. Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print. Editi...
Category

20th Century Modern Portrait Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Digital

Tuba Boy
Located in Kansas City, MO
Nick Vedros Tuba Boy Archival Pigment Print Hahnemühle FineArt Baryta 325 gsm Year: 2000s Size: 11x8in Edition: 15 Signed, dated and numbered by hand on la...
Category

2010s Contemporary Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment

Tuba Boy
$790 Sale Price
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Slim Aarons 'Plantation Cocoyer' 1981 Official Limited Estate Edition
Located in London, GB
'Plantation Cocoyer' People relaxing in the bar at Plantation Cocoyer, Cocoyer Beach, Haiti, February 1981. 30 x 20" inches / 76 x 51 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection E...
Category

1980s Modern Landscape Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Atame
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Atame', 2017, Edition 1/7 plus 2 Artist Proof Based on a Polaroid, digital C-print, not mounted. Signed on the back and with certificate. Artist inventory PL2017-178 Kirsten Thys v...
Category

2010s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Elizabeth Taylor on the Set of "Giant" - Oversize Print
Located in London, GB
Elizabeth Taylor on the Set of "Giant" by Globe Photos This stunning black and white image features actress Elizabeth Taylor posed outdoors while behind the scenes of the film "Gia...
Category

2010s Modern Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

"Scrutiny" Portrait Photography
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This archival illustrative photography pigment print on cotton rag by Andrew Pinkham measures 20in x 16in and is signed and numbered. This piece is part of a small edition of 10. "...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Toni Braxton, Contemporary Gelatin Silver Print by David Ogburn
Located in Long Island City, NY
David Ogburn, American (1942 - ) - Toni Braxton, Medium: Gelatin Silver Print, Image Size: 9.5 x 7.5 inches, Size: 10 x 8 in. (25.4 x 20.32 cm)
Category

Late 20th Century Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Dolly Parton and Mick Jagger
Located in Austin, TX
Signed limited edition archival print of Country music star Dolly Parton hugging rock star Mick Jagger of The Rolling Stones, backstage after her Bottom ...
Category

Late 20th Century Photorealist Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Beach Date (Zuma Beach)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Highway One (Zuma Beach) - 1999 20x24cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artists Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signature Label and Certificate. Artist Inventory # 201. Not ...
Category

1990s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Last Season II (Wastelands)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Last Season II - so I walked away from my Valley (Wastelands) - 2003 20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Artist invento...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Keith Richards Rolling Stones 1978
Located in London, GB
© Michael Putland Keith Richards Rolling Stones Keith Richards by a barn door at his home in Upstate New York after his famous drug arre...
Category

1970s Modern Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

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

Wavelength - Polaroid, Contemporary, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Wavelength - 1999 Edition of 10, 20x20cm. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Not mounted. Stefanie Schneider: A German view of the Ameri...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

To Become Air, Color abstract figurative color photograph
By Lisa Palomino
Located in Miami Beach, FL
'To Become Air' Giclée print Measures: 42 in H x 28 in W Edition of 3 2013 framed Professional Photographer born in Bogotá/Colombia 1976. Palomino has worked in different fields such as theatre, still...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment, Color

Tom Petty #6 Concert Photo by Richard E. Aaron
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Title: Tom Petty #6 Photo Artist: Richard E. Aaron Estate Edition: Hand numbered with estate chop mark in the margin, signature stamp on verso, archival pi...
Category

1970s Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Breaking the Waves (Zuma Beach)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Breaking the Waves (Zuma Beach) - 1999 20x25cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artists Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signature Label and Certificate. Artist Inventory #110....
Category

1990s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Elvis Presley, Tropical Island. 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

Love (Stage of Consciousness) - Polaroid, Analog
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Love (Stage of Consciousness) - 2007 part of the 29 Palms, CA project. Featuring Udo Kier and Radha Mitchell 20x24cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Portrait of Diego Armando Maradona and Andrea Carnevale - Vintage Photo - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage black and white photograph depicting Diego Armando Maradona wearing the Napoli shirt. Very good condition. Copyright by Olympia Foto Martinuzzi.
Category

1980s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Girl in Motel (29 Palms, CA) - Polaroid, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Girl in Motel (29 Palms, CA) - 1999 20x20cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print based on the original Polaroid. Certificate and signature label. Artist invent...
Category

1990s Contemporary Still-life Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

David Bowie Heathen (Framed)
Located in London, GB
David Bowie Heathen album cover, 2002. TITLE: David Bowie Heathen PHOTO: Markus Klinko SIGNED LIMITED LIFETIME EDITION 20/50
 PAPER: SILVER GELATIN FIBRE PRINT FULLY FRAMED: 31.8 x ...
Category

Early 2000s Portrait Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin

Portrait of Paolo Pulici - Vintage Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage black and white photograph. 1970s. Copyright by Dufoto. Very good condition.
Category

1970s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

The Happy Days (Zuma Beach)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Happy Days (Zuma Beach) - 1999 20x24cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artists Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signature Label and Certificate. Artist Inventory # 24291. ...
Category

1990s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

La Canzone del Mare Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
Located in London, GB
La Canzone del Mare 1958 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition La Canzone del Mare in Capri, Italy, July 1958. unframed c type print printed 2023 24 x 20" - paper s...
Category

1950s Modern Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Walter "Walt" Disney and Mickey Mouse in Disneyland - Original Press
Located in Cologne, DE
Walter Elias Disney (December 5, 1901 – December 15, 1966) was an American entrepreneur, animator, writer, voice actor and film producer. A pioneer of the American animation industry...
Category

Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Mixed Realities
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THIS PIECE: "As a self-portrait artist, I use the observation of my surroundings, personal experiences, and my own personal growth to create conceptual images. I am a highly positive person and this positivity often reflects in my work delivering images with a strong message on personal growth, self-love, and empowerment. I want my images to give hope and teach people to appreciate themselves, to love, dream, and believe that everything is possible if we believe it is. My images often feature simple backgrounds, saturated colors, and characteristic props like flowers, plants, origami, or balloons. creating dreamlike images both rich aesthetically and in meaning." - Fares Micue...
Category

2010s Color Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Subdude (29 Palms, CA) - Polaroid, Contemporary, 20th Century
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Subdude (29 Palms, CA) - 1999 20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid, Signature label and Certificate. Artist inventory Number 18...
Category

1990s Contemporary Nude Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

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

Rugged (29 Palms, CA) - Polaroid, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Rugged (29 Palms, CA) - 1999 20x20cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print based on the original Polaroid. Certificate and signature label. Artist inventory num...
Category

1990s Contemporary Still-life Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Adato, a young Rendille woman, is featured in this fashion-inspired portrait
Located in US
Adato, a young Rendille woman, is featured in this fashion-inspired portrait A young Rendille woman named Adato walks over the salt flat with fabric trailing behind her The print series Desert Song: Compositions of Kenya exhibits classic, timeless beauty through portraits of the women of the Rendille tribe in a nod to fashion photography. Offered in a limited edition, these works are printed on Hahnemühle FineArt Baryta paper, which sets the standard for image definition and color depth. Each print includes an embossed certificate of authenticity and is signed and numbered. All images are printed in-house on Hahnemuhle Fine Art Baryta paper and come with a Certificate of Authenticity. For your convenience, all images are printed with a 3” paper border; this is not included in the listed sizes. Through a fashion-inspired lens, photographer and filmmaker Drew Doggett tells extraordinary stories of diverse cultures, animals, places, and communities. He has received over 130 prestigious international awards and has had his artwork featured in many publications, such as Conde Nast Traveler, Architectural Digest, Forbes, Bloomberg, Fortune, The Daily Mail, and Outside Magazine. His photographic work can be found in public collections globally, notably the Smithsonian African Art Museum (DC), as well as in hundreds of corporate and private collections in over 20 countries around the world, including that of Alec Baldwin, Gloria Steinem, Nicole Ari Parker, Eric Church...
Category

2010s Minimalist Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

The Critic
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This archival illustrative photography pigment print on cotton rag by Andrew Pinkham measures 20in x 16in and is signed and numbered. This piece is part of a small edition of 10. "...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

A young Mundari man walks through the smoky, dusty cattle camps of South Sudan
Located in US
A young Mundari man walks through the smoky, dusty cattle camps of South Sudan Portrait of a young Mundari man walking swiftly through the cattle camps in South Sudan with a rope I...
Category

2010s Minimalist Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Genial (29 Palms, CA) - Polaroid, Contemporary, 20th Century
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Genial (29 Palms, CA) - 1999 20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid, Signature label and Certificate. Artist inventory Number 269...
Category

1990s Contemporary Nude Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Tony award-winning playwright Terrence McNally photographed nude for After Dark
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Tony award-winning playwright Terrence McNally photographed nude in Mitchell's studio for 'After Dark' m...
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1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

David Lynch by Kevin Westenberg Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
David Lynch Film director David Lynch, Cannes, 2001 by Kevin Westenberg Signed Limited Edition Kevin Westenberg is famed for his creation of provocative and electrifying images o...
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Early 2000s Modern Black and White Photography

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Archival Pigment

Girls (29 Palms, CA)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Girls (29 Palms, CA) 20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate, Artist inventory number: 958. Not m...
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1990s Contemporary Color Photography

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color

Pathos
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THIS PIECE: "I often combine food with portraits. On the surface, this absurd combination appears to reject any sense of reason (an extension of my own twisted sense of humour)...
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2010s Figurative Photography

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Photographic Paper

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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