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Bob Dylan - Jerry Schatzberg (Portrait Photography)
By Jerry Schatzberg
Located in London, GB
Bob Dylan - Jerry Schatzberg (Portrait Photography) Signed and numbered on reverse Modern silver
Category

1960s Vintage Portrait Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Bob Dylan - Jerry Schatzberg (Portrait Photography)
By Jerry Schatzberg
Located in London, GB
Bob Dylan - Jerry Schatzberg (Portrait Photography) Signed and numbered on reverse Modern silver
Category

Late 20th Century Vintage Portrait Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Wilson Pickett, 1967 - Jerry Schatzberg (Portrait Photography)
By Jerry Schatzberg
Located in London, GB
Wilson Pickett, 1967 - Jerry Schatzberg (Portrait Photography) Signed on reverse Silver Gelatin
Category

1960s Vintage Portrait Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Robert Redford, 1964 - Jerry Schatzberg (Portrait Photography)
By Jerry Schatzberg
Located in London, GB
Robert Redford, 1964 - Jerry Schatzberg (Portrait Photography) Signed on reverse Silver Gelatin
Category

1960s Vintage Portrait Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Bob Dylan - Jerry Schatzberg (Portrait Photography)
By Jerry Schatzberg
Located in London, GB
Bob Dylan - Jerry Schatzberg (Portrait Photography) Signed and numbered on reverse Silver gelatin
Category

1960s Vintage Portrait Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Audrey Hepburn, 1956 - Yousuf Karsh (Portrait Photography)
By Yousuf Karsh
Located in London, GB
Audrey Hepburn, 1956 - Yousuf Karsh (Portrait Photography) Accompanied by a signed certificate of
Category

Mid-20th Century Vintage Portrait Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Martha Graham, 1948 - Yousuf Karsh (Portrait Photography)
By Yousuf Karsh
Located in London, GB
John F. Kennedy, 1960 - Yousuf Karsh (Portrait Photography) Signed on mount Silver gelatin print
Category

Mid-20th Century Vintage Portrait Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Pablo Picasso, 1954 - Yousuf Karsh (Portrait Photography)
By Yousuf Karsh
Located in London, GB
Pablo Picasso, 1954 - Yousuf Karsh (Portrait Photography) Signed on mount Silver gelatin print
Category

Mid-20th Century Vintage Portrait Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Gary Cooper, 1931 - Cecil Beaton (Portrait Photography)
By Cecil Beaton
Located in London, GB
Gary Cooper, 1931 - Cecil Beaton (Portrait Photography) Signed in pencil on mount Stamped with
Category

20th Century Vintage Portrait Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Karen Morely, 1932 - Cecil Beaton (Portrait Photography)
By Cecil Beaton
Located in London, GB
Karen Morely, 1932 - Cecil Beaton (Portrait Photography) Inscribed with 'Karen Morely' in unknown
Category

20th Century Vintage Portrait Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Tallulah Bankhead, 1930s - Cecil Beaton (Portrait Photography)
By Cecil Beaton
Located in London, GB
Tallulah Bankhead, 1930s - Cecil Beaton (Portrait Photography) Inscribed 'Bankhead' in unknown hand
Category

20th Century Vintage Portrait Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Georgia O'Keeffe, 1956 - Yousuf Karsh (Portrait Photography)
By Yousuf Karsh
Located in London, GB
Georgia O'Keeffe, 1956 - Yousuf Karsh (Portrait Photography) Signed on mount Silver gelatin print
Category

Mid-20th Century Vintage Portrait Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Harold Pinter, Glass Booth, 1968 - Jerry Schatzberg (Portrait Photography)
By Jerry Schatzberg
Located in London, GB
Harold Pinter, Glass Booth, 1968 - Jerry Schatzberg (Portrait Photography) Signed on Reverse Silver
Category

1960s Vintage Portrait Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

John F. Kennedy, 1960 - Yousuf Karsh (Portrait Photography)
By Yousuf Karsh
Located in London, GB
John F. Kennedy, 1960 - Yousuf Karsh (Portrait Photography) Signed on mount Silver gelatin print
Category

Mid-20th Century Vintage Portrait Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Martin Luther King, 1960 - Yousuf Karsh (Portrait Photography)
By Yousuf Karsh
Located in London, GB
Martin Luther King, 1960 - Yousuf Karsh (Portrait Photography) Signed on mount Silver gelatin print
Category

Mid-20th Century Vintage Portrait Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Anna May Wong, 1930 - Cecil Beaton (Portrait Photography)
By Cecil Beaton
Located in London, GB
Anna May Wong, 1930 - Cecil Beaton (Portrait Photography) Signed on mount Stamped with
Category

20th Century Vintage Portrait Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Johnny Weissmuller, 1932 - Cecil Beaton (Fashion Portrait Photography)
By Cecil Beaton
Located in London, GB
Johnny Weissmuller, 1932 - Cecil Beaton (Fashion Portrait Photography) Signed on front of mount
Category

20th Century Vintage Portrait Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Edie Sedgwick, Hold Tight, 1966 - Jerry Schatzberg (Portrait Photography)
By Jerry Schatzberg
Located in London, GB
Edie Sedgwick, Hold Tight, 1966 - Jerry Schatzberg (Portrait Photography) Signed on reverse Silver
Category

1960s Vintage Portrait Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Bob Dylan, Contact 80, 1965 - Jerry Schatzberg (Portrait Photography)
By Jerry Schatzberg
Located in London, GB
Bob Dylan, Contact 80, 1965 - Jerry Schatzberg (Portrait Photography) Signed on reverse Silver
Category

1960s Vintage Portrait Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Jimi Hendrix in Concert, 1967 - Jerry Schatzberg (Portrait Photography)
By Jerry Schatzberg
Located in London, GB
Jimi Hendrix in Concert, 1967 - Jerry Schatzberg (Portrait Photography) Signed on Reverse Silver
Category

1960s Vintage Portrait Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Chico Hamilton in Street, 1962 - Jerry Schatzberg (Portrait Photography)
By Jerry Schatzberg
Located in London, GB
Chico Hamilton in Street, 1962 - Jerry Schatzberg (Portrait Photography) Signed on Reverse Silver
Category

1960s Vintage Portrait Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Anne Armstrong-Jones, 1928 - Cecil Beaton (Portrait Photography)
By Cecil Beaton
Located in London, GB
Anne Armstrong-Jones, 1928 - Cecil Beaton (Portrait Photography) Inscribed with 'Lady Rosse' in
Category

20th Century Vintage Portrait Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Mrs Beaton, c.1925 - Cecil Beaton (Portrait Photography)
By Cecil Beaton
Located in London, GB
Mrs Beaton, c.1925 - Cecil Beaton (Portrait Photography) Signed in pencil on mount Inscribed 'Mrs
Category

20th Century Vintage Portrait Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Merle Oberon, 1934 - Cecil Beaton (Fashion Portrait Photography)
By Cecil Beaton
Located in London, GB
Merle Oberon, 1934 - Cecil Beaton (Fashion Portrait Photography) Inscribed 'Merle Oberon' in
Category

20th Century Vintage Portrait Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Meraud Guinness, 1930s - Cecil Beaton (Fashion Portrait Photography)
By Cecil Beaton
Located in London, GB
Meraud Guinness, 1930s - Cecil Beaton (Fashion Portrait Photography) Inkwash signature on mount
Category

20th Century Vintage Portrait Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Terry O'Neill (Portrait Photography) - Brigitte Bardot, 1971
By Terry O'Neill
Located in London, GB
Brigitte Bardot, 1971 - Terry O'Neill (Portrait Photography) Signed and numbered Silver gelatin
Category

20th Century Vintage Portrait Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Lady Jersey, 1935 - Cecil Beaton (Fashion Portrait Photography)
By Cecil Beaton
Located in London, GB
Lady Jersey, 1935 - Cecil Beaton (Fashion Portrait Photography) Inscribed 'Idyll: Lady Jersey' and
Category

20th Century Vintage Portrait Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Lady Pamela Smith, 1927 - Cecil Beaton (Portrait Photography)
By Cecil Beaton
Located in London, GB
Lady Pamela Smith, 1927 - Cecil Beaton (Portrait Photography) Purple inkwash signature on mount
Category

20th Century Vintage Portrait Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Lady Edwina Mountbatten, 1927 - Cecil Beaton (Portrait Photography)
By Cecil Beaton
Located in London, GB
Lady Edwina Mountbatten, 1927 - Cecil Beaton (Portrait Photography) Inkwash signature on mount
Category

20th Century Vintage Portrait Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Corinne Griffith, 1930 - Cecil Beaton (Fashion Portrait Photography)
By Cecil Beaton
Located in London, GB
Corinne Griffith, 1930 - Cecil Beaton (Fashion Portrait Photography) Red inkwash signature on
Category

20th Century Vintage Portrait Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Faye Dunaway: Legs, 1968 - Jerry Schatzberg (Portrait Photography)
By Jerry Schatzberg
Located in London, GB
Faye Dunaway: Legs, 1968 - Jerry Schatzberg (Portrait Photography) Signed on reverse Silver gelatin
Category

Late 20th Century Vintage Portrait Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Four at Gramercy, 1959 - Jerry Schatzberg (Portrait Photography)
By Jerry Schatzberg
Located in London, GB
Four at Gramercy, 1959 - Jerry Schatzberg (Portrait Photography) Signed on reverse Silver gelatin
Category

Late 20th Century Vintage Portrait Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Jean Shrimpton, Early 1960s - Brian Duffy (Portrait Photography)
By Brian Duffy
Located in London, GB
Jean Shrimpton, Early 1960s - Brian Duffy (Portrait Photography) Modern digital fibre print signed
Category

Mid-20th Century Vintage Portrait Photography

Materials

Digital

Back Seat Romance, 1960 - Jerry Schatzberg (Portrait Photography)
By Jerry Schatzberg
Located in London, GB
Back Seat Romance, 1960 - Jerry Schatzberg (Portrait Photography) Signed on Reverse Silver Gelatin
Category

1960s Vintage Portrait Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Miles Davis, 1950 - Bob Willoughby (Portrait Photography)
By Bob Willoughby
Located in London, GB
Miles Davis, 1950 - Bob Willoughby (Portrait Photography) Worldwide Shipping Available Signed by
Category

Late 20th Century Vintage Portrait Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Mary Taylor, c.1934 - Cecil Beaton (Portrait Photography/Fashion Photography)
By Cecil Beaton
Located in London, GB
Mary Taylor, c.1934 - Cecil Beaton (Portrait Photography/Fashion Photography) Inscribed 'Mary
Category

20th Century Vintage Portrait Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Mrs Mona Williams, 1936 - Cecil Beaton (Fashion Portrait Photography)
By Cecil Beaton
Located in London, GB
Mrs Mona Williams, 1936 - Cecil Beaton (Fashion Portrait Photography) Inscribed with 'Mrs Harrison
Category

20th Century Vintage Portrait Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Vicomtesse de Noailles, 1938 - Cecil Beaton (Fashion Portrait Photography)
By Cecil Beaton
Located in London, GB
Vicomtesse de Noailles, 1938 - Cecil Beaton (Fashion Portrait Photography) Inscribed 'Vicontesse de
Category

20th Century Vintage Portrait Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Margot Asquith, Lady Oxford, 1927 - Cecil Beaton (Portrait Photography)
By Cecil Beaton
Located in London, GB
Margot Asquith, Lady Oxford, 1927 - Cecil Beaton (Portrait Photography) Top half of red inkwash
Category

20th Century Vintage Portrait Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Zita and Teresa Jungman, 1927 - Cecil Beaton (Portrait Photography)
By Cecil Beaton
Located in London, GB
Zita and Teresa Jungman, 1927 - Cecil Beaton (Portrait Photography) Red inkwash signature Inscribed
Category

20th Century Vintage Portrait Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Mrs Daisy Fellows, c.1930s - Cecil Beaton (Portrait Photography)
By Cecil Beaton
Located in London, GB
Mrs Daisy Fellows, c.1930s - Cecil Beaton (Portrait Photography) Inscribed 'Mrs Reginald Fellowes
Category

20th Century Vintage Portrait Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Anne St. Marie, Hat, 1958 - Jerry Schatzberg (Portrait Photography)
By Jerry Schatzberg
Located in London, GB
Anne St. Marie, Hat, 1958 - Jerry Schatzberg (Portrait Photography) Signed on reverse Silver
Category

Late 20th Century Vintage Portrait Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Merle Oberon as Antonita, 1934 - Cecil Beaton (Fashion Portrait Photography)
By Cecil Beaton
Located in London, GB
Merle Oberon as Antonita, 1934 - Cecil Beaton (Fashion Portrait Photography) Signed in pencil on
Category

20th Century Vintage Portrait Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Jean Patchett, for 'Vogue' , 1949 - Cecil Beaton (Fashion Portrait Photography)
By Cecil Beaton
Located in London, GB
Jean Patchett, for 'Vogue' , 1949 - Cecil Beaton (Fashion Portrait Photography) Stamped with
Category

20th Century Vintage Portrait Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Dame Edith Sitwell at Tea, 1930 - Cecil Beaton (Portrait Photography)
By Cecil Beaton
Located in London, GB
Dame Edith Sitwell at Tea, 1930 - Cecil Beaton (Portrait Photography) Inscribed 'Edith Sitwell' in
Category

20th Century Vintage Portrait Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Edie Sedgwick, Super Star, 1966 - Jerry Schatzberg (Portrait Photography)
By Jerry Schatzberg
Located in London, GB
Edie Sedgwick, Super Star, 1966 - Jerry Schatzberg (Portrait Photography) Signed on Reverse Silver
Category

1960s Vintage Portrait Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Peter O’Toole, 1962 - Bob Willoughby (Portrait Photography)
By Bob Willoughby
Located in London, GB
Peter O’Toole, 1962 - Bob Willoughby (Portrait Photography) Worldwide Shipping Available Signed by
Category

Late 20th Century Vintage Portrait Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Baba Beaton and Prince Galitzine, 1927 - Cecil Beaton (Portrait Photography)
By Cecil Beaton
Located in London, GB
Baba Beaton and Prince Galitzine, 1927 - Cecil Beaton (Portrait Photography) Signed in pencil on
Category

20th Century Vintage Portrait Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Lady Eleanor Smith with Lillies, 1927 - Cecil Beaton (Portrait Photography)
By Cecil Beaton
Located in London, GB
Lady Eleanor Smith with Lillies, 1927 - Cecil Beaton (Portrait Photography) Inkswash signature on
Category

20th Century Vintage Portrait Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Schiaparelli Model, Paris, c.1936 - Cecil Beaton (Fashion Portrait Photography)
By Cecil Beaton
Located in London, GB
Schiaparelli Model, Paris, c.1936 - Cecil Beaton (Fashion Portrait Photography) Inscribed 'Paris
Category

20th Century Vintage Portrait Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

The Countess of Pembroke, c.1935 - Cecil Beaton (Fashion Portrait Photography)
By Cecil Beaton
Located in London, GB
The Countess of Pembroke, c.1935 - Cecil Beaton (Fashion Portrait Photography) Silver gelatin print
Category

20th Century Vintage Portrait Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Georgia Sitwell, 1930 - Portrait Photography
By Cecil Beaton
Located in London, GB
Inscribed 'Mrs Sacheverell Sitwell' and 'Mrs Sitwell' in unknown hand and stamped with photographer's and Sotheby's Cecil Beaton Studio ink stamps on reverse Silver gelatin print, pr...
Category

20th Century Vintage Portrait Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Andy Warhol and the Gang, 1965 - David Bailey (Portrait Photography)
By David Bailey
Located in London, GB
Andy Warhol and the Gang, 1965 - David Bailey (Portrait Photography) Signed, inscribed with title
Category

Mid-20th Century Vintage Portrait Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Terry O'Neill (Portrait Photography) - Paul Newman and Lee Marvin, 1972
By Terry O'Neill
Located in London, GB
Paul Newman and Lee Marvin, 1972 - Terry O'Neill (Portrait Photography) Signed and numbered Silver
Category

20th Century Vintage Portrait Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Terry O'Neill (Portrait Photography) - Mick Jagger in his Dressing Room, 1964
By Terry O'Neill
Located in London, GB
Mick Jagger in his Dressing Room, 1964 - Terry O'Neill (Portrait Photography) Signed and numbered
Category

20th Century Vintage Portrait Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Michael Caine, 1964 - Brian Duffy (Portrait Photography)
By Brian Duffy
Located in London, GB
Signed by Duffy Authenticated by Chris Duffy, Executor of the Estate, Stamped With Embossed Archive Stamp and the Photographer's Archive Ink Stamp and Numbered on Reverse Silver Gela...
Category

Late 20th Century Vintage Portrait Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Sugarbush Skiing, Slim Aarons - Portrait Photography, Landscape Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
For a limited time only these Slim Aarons prints are available to purchase at 15% discount. Please contact the gallery for any queries. Please bear in mind that all prints are produ...
Category

20th Century American Modern Vintage Portrait Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Digital

Poolside Interruption by Slim Aarons (Portrait Photography, Figurative)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
For a limited time only these Slim Aarons prints are available to purchase at 15% discount. Please contact the gallery for any queries. Please bear in mind that all prints are produ...
Category

20th Century Modern Vintage Portrait Photography

Materials

Lambda, C Print

Chalet Costi, Zermatt by Slim Aarons (Portrait Photography)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
For a limited time only these Slim Aarons prints are available to purchase at 15% discount. Please contact the gallery for any queries. Please bear in mind that all prints are produ...
Category

20th Century American Modern Vintage Portrait Photography

Materials

C Print, Lambda

All Mine by Slim Aarons (Portrait Photography, Landscape Photography)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
For a limited time only these Slim Aarons prints are available to purchase at 15% discount. Please contact the gallery for any queries. Please bear in mind that all prints are produ...
Category

20th Century American Modern Vintage Portrait Photography

Materials

C Print, Lambda

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Vintage Portrait Photography For Sale on 1stDibs

On 1stDibs, you can find the most appropriate piece of vintage portrait photography for your needs in our varied inventory. Find contemporary versions now, or shop for contemporary creations for a more modern example of these cherished works. Making the right choice when shopping for an item from our selection of vintage portrait photography may mean carefully reviewing examples of this item dating from different eras — you can find an early iteration of this piece from the 20th Century and a newer version made as recently as the 20th Century. Adding a choice in our collection of vintage portrait photography to a room that is mostly decorated in warm neutral tones can yield a welcome change — find a piece on 1stDibs that incorporates elements of black, gray, brown, silver and more. Finding an appealing object in our assortment of vintage portrait photography — no matter the origin — is easy, but Slim Aarons, Jack Mitchell, Leslie Schiff, John Albok and Henry Grossman each produced popular versions that are worth a look. These artworks were handmade with extraordinary care, with artists most often working in silver gelatin print, archival pigment print and pigment print.

How Much is a Vintage Portrait Photography?

The average selling price for a piece of vintage portrait photography we offer is $2,150, while they’re typically $33 on the low end and $61,436 for the highest priced.

Finding the Right photography for You

Find a broad range of photography on 1stDibs today.

The first permanent image created by a camera — which materialized during the 1820s — is attributed to Joseph Nicéphore Niépce. The French inventor was on to something for sure. Kodak introduced roll film in the 1880s, allowing photography to become more democratic, although cameras wouldn’t be universally accessible until several decades later. 

Digital photographic techniques, software, smartphone cameras and social-networking platforms such as Instagram have made it even easier in the modern era for budding photographers to capture the world around them as well as disseminate their images far and wide. 

What might leading figures of visual art such as Andy Warhol have done with these tools at their disposal?

Today, when we aren’t looking at the digital photos that inundate us on our phones, we look to the past to celebrate the photographers who have broken rules as well as records — provocative and prolific artists like Horst P. Horst, Lillian Bassman and Helmut Newton, who altered the face of fashion and portrait photography; visionary documentary photographers such as Gordon Parks, whose best-known work was guided by social justice; and pioneers of street photography such as Henri Cartier-Bresson, who shot for revolutionary travel magazines like Holiday with the likes of globetrotting society lensman Slim Aarons.

Find photographers you may not know in Introspective and The Study — where you’ll read about Berenice Abbott, who positioned herself atop skyscrapers for the perfect shot, or “conceptual artist-adventurer” Charles Lindsay, whose work combines scientific rigor with artistic expression, or Massimo Listri, known for his epic interiors of opulent Old World libraries. Photographer Jeannette Montgomery Barron was given a Kodak camera as a child. Later, she shot on Polaroid film before buying her first 35mm camera in her teens. Barron's stunning portraits of Jean-Michel Basquiat, Warhol and other artists chronicle a crucial chapter of New York’s cultural history.

Throughout the past two centuries, photographers have used their medium to create expressive work that has resonated for generations. Shop a voluminous collection of this powerful fine photography on 1stDibs. Search by photographer to find the perfect piece for your living room wall, or spend some time with the work organized under various categories, such as landscape photography, nude photography and more. 

Questions About Vintage Portrait Photography
  • 1stDibs ExpertAugust 17, 2021
    Vintage photography are the earliest prints that photographers could make from negatives. Yet even later copies from the same negative are considered original vintage prints. Find a collection of photography today on 1stDibs.
  • 1stDibs ExpertApril 5, 2022
    Annie Leibovitz attempts to emulate natural light when taking portraits to capture a more natural and realistic impression. The goal is to pull as much character and personality out of her subjects while making a statement about the world at the same time. Shop a selection of Annie Leibovitz pieces from some of the world’s top art dealers on 1stDibs.