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Portrait Photography For Sale
Ahmedabad 151209-566 (India, Street Photography, Portrait, B&W, 30% OFF)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Lord Fauntleroy
Ahmedabad 151209-566
Pigment Print
Year: 2015
Visible Size: 9.25 x 9.25 inches
Framed: 10.6 x 10.6 inches
Signed: On Label
Edition: 8
COA provided
*White frame with...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Al Fresco Tea (1961) Limited Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Al Fresco Tea (1961) Limited Estate Stamped
(Photo By Slim Aarons)
Colonel Dimitris Levidis enjoying a meal in the fresh air at Harvati with his wife and son,
July 1961.
Add...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Harlem Beauty Contest, African American Fashion, Black and White Photograph
Located in New york, NY
Beauty Contest, Harlem, 1963 by Leonard Freed is a 16" x 20" gelatin silver print, signed verso (on back) by the Freed estate. The image appears in Amer...
Category
1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Kate Moss during a night out, 2007
Located in New York, NY
Kate Moss is photographed during a night out at the Donmar Warehouse in Covent Garden in London on the 16th of January in 2007. The British supermodel and businesswoman rose to fame ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Cecil Beaton, Greta Garbo, from Electa Editrice Portfolios, 1981 (after)
By Cecil Beaton
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite heliogravure after Sir Cecil Beaton (1904–1980), titled Greta Garbo, from the folio Cecil Beaton, Electa Editrice Portfolios, 1981, originates from the 1981 edition pu...
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Sean Connery
Ian Fleming on set of Dr.No b/w photograph 17 x25 inch
Located in Norwich, GB
Invited onto the set of the first James Bond film Dr.No, Herrmann captured the historic moment when author of the Bond books Ian Fleming dropped in on the filming to chat with actor ...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Serenitas, Horse Portrait, Equine Beauty
Located in New York City, NY
The photographic work of Raphael Macek offers profound meditation on the timeless bond between humans and horses. With exceptional sensitivity, Macek captures the equine form as both...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Cecil Beaton, Buster Keaton, from Electa Editrice Portfolios, 1981 (after)
By Cecil Beaton
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite heliogravure after Sir Cecil Beaton (1904–1980), titled Buster Keaton, from the folio Cecil Beaton, Electa Editrice Portfolios, 1981, originates from the 1981 edition ...
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Iggy Raw Power - Limited Edition Mick Rock Estate Print
By Mick Rock
Located in London, GB
Iggy Raw Power - Limited Edition Mick Rock Estate Print
Iggy Pop, Raw Power album cover photograph, 1973 (photo Mick Rock).
All prints are nu...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Backstage At La Scala (1948) Limited Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Backstage At La Scala (1948) Limited Estate Stamped
(Photo By Slim Aarons)
A chorus girl reads a movie magazine in a dressing room at La Scala opera house,
Milan, November 1948....
Category
1940s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Shaken Not Stirred
1968
By Peter Ruck
Located in London, GB
'Shaken Not Stirred' by Peter Ruck 1968 Silver Gelatin Print
English actor Roger Moore, downs a Martini, 17th July 1968.
Moore has recently been awarded his second Bravo Otto award...
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
James Deann At A Car Rally - Oversize Limited Print
By Frank Worth
Located in London, GB
James Dean At A Car Rally 1955 (colorised)
by Frank Worth
paper size 40 x 60 inches / 101 x 152 cm
edition of 6 only in this size
Archival pigment print
unframed
Note other si...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
The Way of the West No. 12
By Jim Krantz
Located in New York, NY
Listing includes free shipping for unframed prints in the continental US and a 14-day return policy.
Please inquire for framing options. We offer framing from our New York and Los Angeles gallery...
Category
2010s Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Pigment, Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment
"Beatles - Afternoon Rehearsal" Photography 18x21in Ed. of 25 by Howard Grafton
Located in Culver City, CA
"Beatles - Afternoon Rehearsal" Photography 18x21in Ed. of 25 by Howard Grafton
Signed and numbered on the back by the publisher
The Beatles on the E...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Metal
Guatemala, Men, Black and White Photography, ca. 1960s, 26, 4 x 24, 2 cm
Located in Cologne, DE
Hanna Seidel (1925 to 2005) lived and worked in Argentina for many years. She was a world traveller, journeying to South America in the 1950s and to Central America, Japan, India, an...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Rolling Stones Into Camera, Beggars Banquet, Colour digital Photography Print
Located in Los Angeles, CA
36 x 24 in (91.4 x 68.6 cm)
Digital C-Type Print
Edition of 30
Other sizes available.
Category
1960s Portrait Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
A Princess
Life - Polaroid, Contemporary, Portrait, Color, 21st Century, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
A Princess' Life (High Desert) - 2019
Edition 1/10, 20x20cm.
Digital C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Signature label and Certificate.
Artist Inventory # 22182
Not mounted.
Stef...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Pussyfooting (1958) Limited Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Pussyfooting (1958) Limited Estate Stamped
(Photo By Slim Aarons)
Actress Dee Hartford, the wife of film producer Howard Hawks, sips a Pussyfoot – a mixture of Jamaican fruit ju...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Frida Kahlo in the Blue House, Coyoacán, Mexico. Color Portrait
By Leo Matiz
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Matiz managed to create intimate portraits, in which Frida seemed happy to surrender to her lens. The result was dynamic portraits of Khalo, a wonderful example of both the photograp...
Category
1940s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Color
Helen Frankenthaler, Painter in the Studio, Photograph of Woman Artist 1950s
By Burt Glinn
Located in New york, NY
A portrait of Helen Frankenthaler (1925-2011) in her studio in New York. Glinn captures the celebrated artist, Frankenthaler, in the process of making art - surrounded by paint, mate...
Category
1950s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Marianne Faithfull by Gered Mankowitz
Located in Austin, TX
English singer, songwriter and actress Marianne Faithfull, photographed at The Salisbury pub in London, 1964.
Available in the following sizes. All prints signed and numbered by Ger...
Category
Late 20th Century Photorealist Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Che Guevara
Located in Cologne, DE
Osvaldo Salas, widely recognized as one of the world’s great press photographers, was born in Havana, Cuba in 1914. At the age of fourteen, he left Havan...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
John Lennon and Yoko Ono by Barrie Wentzell
Located in Austin, TX
John Lennon & Yoko Ono taken outside the white room of their home in Tittenhurst, Ascot, UK in 1971.
Barrie Wentzell recalls, "I visited John and Yoko one afternoon accompanying a f...
Category
Late 20th Century Photorealist Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Tina Chow
Located in New York, NY
Listing includes framing with UV plexi, free shipping to the continental US and a 14-day return policy.
One 4.5 x 3.25 inch unique vintage Kodak print of Tina Chow (1975). Prints ar...
Category
1970s Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Polaroid
Darth Elvis by BATIK Supersize Signed Limited Edition
By BATIK
Located in London, GB
Darth Elvis
By BATIK Signed Limited Edition
BATIK is a London based fine artist and image maker.
Produced directly in the artist's studio
Certificate of authenticity supplied
Pa...
Category
2010s Pop Art Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
The End, Bisbee, Arizona - Vintage Interior Color Photograph
Located in Cambridge, GB
'The End' photograph from Richard Heeps Dream in Colour series. The vintage tv plays the end credits of a movie still with the familiar words 'The End', set in a warm wood panelled i...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
Windmills of your Mind (Heavenly Falls) - Polaroid, Contemporary, Women
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Windmills of your Mind (Heavenly Falls) - 2016
40x48cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and signature label.
Artist invent...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Ecuador, Indigenous, Black and White Photography, 1960s, 29 x 22, 4 cm
Located in Cologne, DE
Hanna Seidel (1925 to 2005) lived and worked in Argentina for many years. She was a world traveller, journeying to South America in the 1950s and to Central America, Japan, India, an...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
"Embedded Worth" - contemporary digitally manipulated portraiture, Kehinde Wiley
Located in Atlanta, GA
This listing is for an unframed print.
Tokie Rome-Taylor is inspired by the works of Harmonia Rosales, Kehinde Wiley, Tawny Chatmon, Ayana V. Jackson, Omar Victor Diop, Deborah Roberts...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Pigment
Iconic Racing Yachts in an Abstract Composition on the Still Seas
By Drew Doggett
Located in US
"At Sea"
Here, the 12-Meter racing yachts Weatherly and American Eagle are featured on the Atlantic Ocean.
The nautical print series Sail: Majesty at Sea is an intimate look at tw...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Grain by Grain - black and white abstract photography, limited edition of 15
By Ugne Pouwell
Located in London, GB
"Grain by Grain" is a poetic exploration of identity and transformation, captured in Ugne’s signature monochromatic style. This evocative photograph contemplates the interplay betwee...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Portrait Photography
Materials
Giclée
Summer In Monaco (1957) Limited Estate Stamped - Grande XL
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Summer In Monaco (1957) Limited Estate Stamped
(Photo By Slim Aarons)
Film director Howard Hawks (1896 – 1977) and his wife Dee spend a summer day by the pool in Monaco with producer Charles K...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Japan – Two young geishas in flower garden, studio photograph, hand-colored
Located in Middletown, NY
Yokohama, Japan: c 1890.
Hand-tinted albumen print, 10 1/2 x 8 inches (266 x 203 mm), numbered B334 in negative, right side of image printed somewhat lighter than left, tiny in-nega...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Watercolor, Photographic Paper
Orangutan #3 by Brad Wilson - Animal portrait photography
By Brad Wilson
Located in Paris, FR
'Orangutan #3, Los Angeles, CA, 2011' is a limited-edition photograph by contemporary artist Brad Wilson from the ‘Affinity’ series which features studio portraits of wild animals.
...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Portrait of a Young Woman Wearing Traditional Tribal Jewelry, Africa, Fashion
By Drew Doggett
Located in US
"Mindisayo's Gaze"
In this best-selling image, a young women in the Rendille tribe of Northern Kenya wears the unique jewelry and ornamentation of this culturally-rich region.
The...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Tanga Moreau, Pirelli session for the 1998 Pirelli Cal, Hand tinted Print
By Bruce Weber
Located in London, GB
The 1998 Pirelli Calendar was photographed in Miami by Bruce Weber.
Tanga Moreau was among the many iconic models photographed.
'Tanga Moreau is a Belgian model. She has appeared on...
Category
1990s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White, Digital Pigment, Aquatint, Pigment, Photographic Paper,...
RICHARD AVEDON - CENTER FOR CREATIVE IMAGING
Located in Portland, ME
Avedon, Richard. RICHARD AVEDON - CENTER FOR CREATIVE IMAGING. Poster, 1991. Signed in ink by Avedon. Captioned " Gordon Stevenson, drifter Interstate 90 Butte Montana...
Category
1990s Portrait Photography
Materials
Offset
Frida and Diego with Gas Mask - Mexican Artists, Couple, Painter, Kahlo, Rivera
Located in Denton, TX
Frida and Diego with Gas Mask is a limited edition black and white portrait of Mexican painters Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. The couple embraces each other while Frida holds a gas m...
Category
1930s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ivy Nicholson in New York for American Vogue, 1957
Located in Austin, TX
Model and future Factor Star, Ivy Nicholson in New York for American Vogue, 1957 by Norman Parkinson
NORMAN PARKINSON POSTHUMOUS LIMITED EDITION PRINTS ...
Category
Late 20th Century Photorealist Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Keep Your Cool - Backgammon Players Swimming Pool France
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
Keep Your Cool - Backgammon Players Swimming Pool France by Slim Aarons
16 x 20" print.
Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print.
Edition of 150.
Printed Later.
Keep Your Cool is a Lim...
Category
20th Century American Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Color, C Print, Digital
Rollicking, Adriana Lima for New York Times Magazine
Located in Zurich, CH
Ellen VON UNWERTH (*1954, Germany)
Rollicking, Adriana Lima for New York Times Magazine, 1999
Unique Polaroid
Image 7.5 x 9.5 cm (3 x 3 3/4 in.)
Sheet 8.6 x 10.7 cm (3 3/8 x 4 1/4 in...
Category
1990s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Polaroid
The Beatles oversize CONTACT SHEET - FOUND photographic b/w print on Hannehmuhle
Located in Norwich, GB
Before digital when cameras used only film, a roll of 36 would be processed to produce a strip of negatives. The long roll of negatives was then cut into strips of six, usually with ...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Giclée, Archival Pigment
L
été, Porquerolles
By Sonia Sieff
Located in München, BY
Edition of 7
Also available in 73 x 100 cm / 28.7 x 43.3 in, Edition of 3, price on request
A naked beautiful blond woman is lying on an old and dry tree on the island Porquerolles ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Untitled (Beachshoot) - based on a Polaroid - featuring Radha Mitchell
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Untitled (Beachshoot) - 2005
48x46cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventory # 1456.
Not ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Untitled (The Last Picture Show) - 21st Century, Polaroid, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Untitled (The Last Picture Show) - 2006
20x20cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Artist inventory number: 21140.
Signature ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
The Two Georges 24 x 35inch signed limited edition b/w archival pigment print
Located in Norwich, GB
Iconic and rare limited edition print direct from the negative, signed lower right hand margin and stamped with photographers own blind stamp.
This is Number 3/10.
Paper size 24 x 35...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Giclée, Archival Pigment
Runaway Ride (The Getaway) - The Last Picture Show - Polaroid, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Runaway Ride - The Getaway (The Last Picture Show) - 1999
40x40cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Artist Inventory #345.
...
Category
1990s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
0946 and 0971, Diptych. From The ONE Series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Although photography remains Arnone's primary form of expression, the artist begins to see certain limitations in this medium when it comes to adequately depicting his altered and of...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Fabric, Mixed Media, Archival Pigment, Pastel, Ink, Acrylic, Pencil
Che Guevara
Located in Cologne, DE
Osvaldo Salas, widely recognized as one of the world’s great press photographers, was born in Havana, Cuba in 1914. At the age of fourteen, he left Havan...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Cricket in Antigua (1960) - Limited Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Cricket in Antigua (1960) - Limited Estate Stamped
(Photo By Slim Aarons)
Cricketers on the field during a match between the Leeward Islands and the MCC, Antigua,
West Indies, ...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall
Located in Austin, TX
American model Jerry Hall with singer Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones, photographed for Norman Parkinson’s exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, London, July 1981.
NORMAN P...
Category
Late 20th Century Photorealist Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
The Nine Lives of Cindy, porcelain plate
official COA in box Lt Edition of 100
Located in New York, NY
Cindy Sherman
The Nine Lives of Cindy, 2019
Printed Bone Porcelain
12 1/2 in diameter
Limited Edition of 100
Plate signed verso and also accompanied by plate signed documentation card/official Certificate of Authenticity
In original box
Produced exclusively for the National Portrait Gallery in the United Kingdom on the occasion of the 2019 Cindy Sherman exhibition which also traveled to the Vancouver Art Gallery.
Acquired directly from the National Portrait Gallery before it sold out.
Cindy Sherman Biography:
Born in 1954 in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, Cindy Sherman lives and works in New York NY. Her ground-breaking photographs have interrogated themes around representation and identity in contemporary media for over four decades. Coming to prominence in the late 1970s with the Pictures Generation group alongside artists such as Sherrie Levine, Richard Prince and Louise Lawler, Sherman studied art at Buffalo State College in 1972 where she turned her attention to photography. In 1977, shortly after moving to New York, Sherman began her critically acclaimed Untitled Film Stills. A suite of 69 black and white portraits, Untitled Film Stills sees Sherman impersonate a myriad of stereotypical female characters and caricatures inspired by Hollywood pictures, film noir, and B movies. Using a range of costumes, props and backdrops to manipulate her own appearance and to create photographs resembling promotional film images, the series explores the tension between artifice and identity in consumer culture which has preoccupied the artist’s practice ever since.
Sherman continued to channel and reconstruct familiar personas known to the collective psyche, often in unsettling ways. In 1981, the artist created her Centerfolds, a series of photographic double spreads inspired by men’s erotic magazines...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain, Paper, Mixed Media, Screen
Cadillac at the Drive-In, Goodwood - Vintage Lifestyle Color Photograph
Located in Cambridge, GB
Vintage Americana inspired Drive-In movie theatre, from the glamorous Goodwood Revival, featuring a classic Cadillac and Marilyn Monroe on the big screen. Richard was incredibly insp...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
Jimi Hendrix Poses With A Cigarette, 1967 — Signed Limited Edition Print
Located in London, GB
Jimi Hendrix poses with a cigarette, 1967 —
Signed Limited Edition Print
by Gered Mankowitz
Legendary guitarist Jimi Hendrix is pictured head-on during a session at Mankowitz's st...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Lord of the Land, Lion, black and white photography, Africa, Portrait, Wildlife
Located in München, BY
Edition No. 4/12
image size 28 x 28 cm
signed and numbered
Framed with mat and anti-reflex glass
Portrait of a male Lion in Kenya, Masai Mara.
Joachim Schmeisser is represented by ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Audrey Hepburn in Pool 1966 (Framed)
Located in London, GB
Audrey Hepburn on the set of ‘Two for the Road’, 1966.
Audrey Hepburn Swims 1966
by Terry O’Neill
Hand SIGNED LIMITED EDITION 27/50
PAPER: C TYPE
FULLY FRAMED: 26.5 x 21.1 INCH
P...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print
Mete Caña , ca. 2020 Mixed media on canvas , 23k Gold leaf edition number: 1/7
Located in San Juan, PR
In this new series Mercado utilizes canvas in big format as a medium to intervene Jack Delano's photographs of Puerto Rican agriculture workers he documented for the FSA in the 1940...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Metal, Gold Leaf
Yayoi Kusama
- signed Limited Edition Oversize print (2013)
Located in London, GB
'Yayoi Kusama'
June 12 2013
Tokyo Personal Work
(photo Kevin Westenberg)
unframed
signed and numbered by the artist.
limited to an edition of 3
Printed 2020
This Size 60x40''...
Category
2010s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Color
Born a Lion, contemporary, wildlife, black and white photography, Lion
Located in München, BY
Edition of 12
more sizes on request
A Portrait of big majestic male lion lying in the sun.
Joachim Schmeisser is represented by leading Galleries worldwide. His photographs are amo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Che Guevara
Located in Cologne, DE
Osvaldo Salas, widely recognized as one of the world’s great press photographers, was born in Havana, Cuba in 1914. At the age of fourteen, he left Havan...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
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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