Modern Portrait Photography
MODERN STYLE
The first decades of the 20th century were a period of artistic upheaval, with modern art movements including Cubism, Surrealism, Futurism and Dadaism questioning centuries of traditional views of what art should be. Using abstraction, experimental forms and interdisciplinary techniques, painters, sculptors, photographers, printmakers and performance artists all pushed the boundaries of creative expression.
Major exhibitions, like the 1913 Armory Show in New York City — also known as the “International Exhibition of Modern Art,” in which works like the radically angular Nude Descending a Staircase by Marcel Duchamp caused a sensation — challenged the perspective of viewers and critics and heralded the arrival of modern art in the United States. But the movement’s revolutionary spirit took shape in the 19th century.
The Industrial Revolution, which ushered in new technology and cultural conditions across the world, transformed art from something mostly commissioned by the wealthy or the church to work that responded to personal experiences. The Impressionist style emerged in 1860s France with artists like Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne and Edgar Degas quickly painting works that captured moments of light and urban life. Around the same time in England, the Pre-Raphaelites, like Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, borrowed from late medieval and early Renaissance art to imbue their art with symbolism and modern ideas of beauty.
Emerging from this disruption of the artistic status quo, modern art went further in rejecting conventions and embracing innovation. The bold legacy of leading modern artists Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Salvador Dalí, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Marc Chagall, Piet Mondrian and many others continues to inform visual culture today.
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Style: Modern
The Old Days - Little Child - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Old Days - Little Child is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the early 20th century.
It belongs to historical album including historical moment, royal families, and ...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
On the sofa with Agatha Christie
Located in Cologne, DE
Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, DBE (born Miller; 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English writer. She is known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around her fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Norman Parkinson
Mouche at Praia do Vau, Portugal for Vogue, January 1973
Located in New York, NY
Mouche at Praia do Vau, Portugal wearing a Nina Ricci swimsuit. British Vogue magazine, January 1973.
Mouche at Praia do Vau, Portugal for Vogue, January 1973
Printed later
C print
...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Virna Lisi - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Virna Lisi is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1960s.
Good conditions.
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Misfits
Limited Edition silver gelatin print
Located in London, GB
'The Misfits' Oversize Limited Edition silver gelatin print
A gorgeously candid portrait of the first rebel of Hollywood and greatly respected young son of method acting - before ...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
James Dean - American Cultural Icon Hollywood Actor Silver Gelatin Photograph
Located in Brighton, GB
James Dean - American Cultural Icon Hollywood Actor Silver Gelatin Photograph
The iconic American actor James Dean poses for a photograph at a dinner. He wears a tuxedo and has a so...
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Norman Parkinson
Apollonia van Ravenstein in Barbados. Vogue, July 1973
Located in New York, NY
Apollonia van Ravenstein at the Crane Beach Hotel in Barbados wearing a Jane Cattlin swimsuit with a Charles Batten hat, chiffon scarf from Liberty and Saint Laurent Rive Gauche sand...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Women
s Rights Movement Photos - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Women's Rights Movement - Historical Photos is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1960s in Italy, it belong to album of women rights, protests, manifestation for th...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Old Days - Historical Photo - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Old Days - Historical Photo is a black and white vintage photo, realized in 1912.
It belongs to historical album including historical moment, royal families, and political even...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Terry O
Neill
Faye Dunaway Oscar
Located in New York, NY
Faye Dunaway Oscar Outtake (Stare) Los Angeles
1977, Printed Later
Silver Gelatin Print
30 x 30 inches
Edition of 50
Estate signature stamped and numbered edition of 50
with certific...
Category
1990s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Ava Gardner Portrait
Oversize Limited Edition silver gelatin print
Located in London, GB
'Ava Gardner Portrait' Limited Edition silver gelatin print
ca 1950
Portrait of the actress Ava Gardner circa 1950. (photo by Pictorial Press / Alamy Archives)
(photo by Pictorial...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Historical Photo - Portrait - Vintage Photo - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Historical Photo - Portrait is a vintage photo, realized in the late 19th Century .
The artwork is a well-balanced composition.
Category
19th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Bert Stern, "Feeling Good, " original photograph, hand signed
By Bert Stern
Located in Chatsworth, CA
This piece is an original chromogenic photograph that was developed from the original negative by Bert Stern. This photo is part of The Last Sitting portfolio, taken six weeks before...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
King George 6th and Mother Queen - Vintage Photograph - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
King George 6th and Mother Queen is a photograph realized in the 1940s.
Good conditions.
The artwork is realized in a well-balanced composition.
Category
1940s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Jerry Hall Dive (Diptych)
Located in New York, NY
Norman Parkinson
Jerry Hall , 1976
C print
60 x 40 inches each
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 21 on verso
American model Jerry Hall wearing a swimsuit by Martil and lipstick...
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
The Italian Actors Marcello Mastroianni and Laura Morante - B/w Photo - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The Italian Actor Marcello Mastroianni and the Italian Actress Laura Morante in a scene from the movie "Le due vite di Mattia Pascal" by Mario Monicelli.
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Old Days - Historical Photo - The Early 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
The Old Days - Historical Photo is a black and white vintage photo, realized in Early 20th century.
It belongs to historical album including historical moment, royal families, and...
Category
1910s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Virna Lisi - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Virna Lisi is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1960s.
Good conditions.
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Reg Lancaster
Birkin and Gainsbourg
Limited Edition Photographic Print, 30x40
Located in San Rafael, CA
By photographer Reg Lancaster, English actress Jane Birkin and French singer-songwriter Serge Gainsbourg, at home in Paris, 1969.
As an authorized Getty Images Gallery partner, we ...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Pool At Las Brisas 1972
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Pool At Las Brisas
Guests in the pool at the Las Brisas Hotel, Acapulco, Mexico, February 1972.
Paper size 30 x 20" inches / 76 x 51 cm
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Historical Photo - BenKhedda - Vintage Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Historical Photo-BenKhedda is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the mid-20th century.
Good conditions and aged.
It belongs to a historical album including historical mom...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Frida Kahlo Portrait, Photograph by Leo Matiz
By Leo Matiz
Located in Long Island City, NY
A portrait of Frida Kahlo taken in 1945 by Leo Matiz. The photograph was printed in 1991 and hand-signed and numbered on the reverse. Unframed.
Artist: Leo Matiz, Colombian (1917 ...
Category
1940s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Cheetah Who Shops - Bond Street Shopping Black and White Photograph
Located in Brighton, GB
Cheetah Who Shops - Bond Street Shopping Black and White Photograph
A female shopper pauses in front of a boutique greengrocer's while her pet cheetah looks away, perhaps he has spo...
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Architecture and Art Photo - Saint George Fights the Dragon - Venice - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Architecture and Art Photo - Saint George fights the dragon is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the 1920s. It belongs to masterpiece of art and architecture album meticu...
Category
1920s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Vintage Photo - Skeleton - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo - Skeleton is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the early 20th Century.
Good conditions.
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Brighton, Street Photographer, United Kingdom 1956
Located in Cologne, DE
This black-and-white photograph, taken in Brighton in 1952, depicts a street photographer labeled "Official Beach Photographer," standing confidently with his vintage camera on a tri...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White
The Old Days - Historical Photo - The Early 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
The Old Days - Historical Photo is a black and white vintage photo, realized in Early 20th century.
It belongs to historical album including historical moment, royal families, and ...
Category
1910s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Old Days Photo - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Old Days Photo is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the early 20th century.
It belongs to historical album including historical moment, royal families, and political...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Alain Delon in The Assassination of Trotsky - Photo - 1972
Located in Roma, IT
Alain Delon in The Assassination of Trotsky is a vintage black and white photograph realized in 1972.
Good conditions.
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Women
s Work - Historical Photos -1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Women's Work - Historical Photos is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1950s in Italy, it belongs to an album of women rights, protests, manifestation for their rig...
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Josèphine Baker Serves Breakfast in Brussels - Vintage Photo - 1964
Located in Roma, IT
Josèphine Baker serves breakfast in Brussels is an orignal black and white photograph realized in 1964.
The photo shows the famous singer serving sweets to 3 of his children In Brus...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Marie Maud McKim, Central Park (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Marie Maud ('Memsie') McKim
1958 (printed later)
Chromogenic print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Marie Maud ('...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Harrison Ford, Melanie Griffith and Sigourney Weaver - Vintage Photo - 1988
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
Harrison Ford, Melanie Griffith and Sigourney Weaver, the lead cast of "Working Girl".
Good condition.
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Old Days - Historical Photo - 1915
Located in Roma, IT
The Old Days - Historical Photo is a black and white vintage photo, realized in 1915.
It belongs to historical album including historical moment, royal families, and political eve...
Category
1910s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Old Days - Historical Photo - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Old Days - Historical Photo is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the early 20th century.
It belongs to historical album including historical moment, royal families, ...
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Vintage Photo of Painting -Portrait - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo of Painting -Portrait is a vintage photograph realized in the early 20th Century.
The photo belongs to Albumen of historical painting, photographs, meticulously captu...
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Historical Photo of Prison Carinola - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Historical Photo of Prison Carinola is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s.
Good conditions.
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Iva Zanicchi in Sanremo Festival 84 - Photo- 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Iva Zanicchi a Portrait is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1980s.
Good conditions.
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Protest - Historical Photograph About the Feminist Movement - 1978
Located in Roma, IT
The protest - Historical photograph about the feminist movement is an original black and white photograph realized in Rome in 1978 by the Agency of "Ansa"
...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Marilyn Takes It To The Streets
By Ed Feingersh
Located in London, GB
Movie star Marilyn Monroe is seen in a candid moment on the street in March 1955 in New York City, New York.
(Photo by Ed Feingersh)
A beautiful Limited Edition (ed size 300) s...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
George Barris, "P7" from The Last Photos, original photograph, hand signed
Located in Chatsworth, CA
This photograph of Marilyn Monroe was shot by photographer, George Barris, in 1962 in Los Angeles, California. This photograph is from a ...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Marcello Mastroianni in 8 1/2 by Federico Fellini - Photo - 1963
Located in Roma, IT
Marcello Mastroianni in 8 1/2 Federico Fellini is a vintage black and white photograph realized in 1963.
It is taken on the set of Fellini's masterpiece, with Marcello Mastroianni ...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Vintage Photo of a Painting by Antonio Peltrinelli- Photo - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo of a Painting by Antonio Peltrinelli is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1940s.
Good conditions.
Category
1940s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Lampshade, New York
Located in Hudson, NY
Edition # 1/10
This is the framed price listed. The photograph is also available unframed in the two additional sizes listed.
Heal disguises her contemporary characters in a fict...
Category
1990s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Bob Dylan
By David Bailey
Located in London, GB
David Bailey
Bob Dylan, 1986
Lambda Silver Gelatin print on paper, framed
Signed by the artist, on verso
Sheet: 116 x 140 cm
Edition of 10
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
$47,871
Vintage Magnum Press Photograph Arthur Miller with Saul Steinberg Mask Photo
By Inge Morath
Located in Surfside, FL
Vintage Magnum press photo. Shot in the 60's by Inge Morath, printed in the 80's.
Arthur Miller peers out from Saul Steinberg mask. (with Marilyn Mon...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Harry Benson
Ali in Training
Limited Edition Photographic Print, 40 x 40
By Harry Benson
Located in San Rafael, CA
American Heavyweight boxer Cassius Clay (later Muhammad Ali), training in his gym, 21st May 1965. (Photo by Harry Benson/Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
As an authorized Getty ...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Norman Parkinson
Three Little Black Dresses, Capucci, Florence, 1961
Located in New York, NY
Norman Parkinson The Italian Collections, Three Little Black Dresses, Fashions by Capucci, Florence for Queen Magazine, 1961
Three Little Black Dresses, Florence 1961
Silver gelatin...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Mil Besos Eva Maria Garrido Garcia Yerbabuena Outskirts of Sevilla Spain
Located in New York, NY
From a small edition of 25, this stunning selenium toned silver gelatin print was realized by the esteemed Colombian fine artist/ photographer Ruven Afanador in 2007. Inspired by the lyrical poetry of Federico García Lorca...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Harry Benson
Ali in Training
Limited Edition Photographic Print, 20 x 20
By Harry Benson
Located in San Rafael, CA
American Heavyweight boxer Cassius Clay (later Muhammad Ali), training in his gym, 21st May 1965. (Photo by Harry Benson/Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
As an authorized Getty ...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
MICHAEL CAINE PORTRAIT 1964 - signed
By Brian Duffy
Located in London, GB
MICHAEL CAINE PORTRAIT 1964
MICHAEL CAINE – 1964
signed limited edition of 15 only.
silver gelatin
This Michael Caine Portrait by Duffy was taken in 1964, the same year that the f...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Coney Island
By John Albok
Located in Denton, TX
Unique
Vintage gelatin silver print
7 1/4 x 6 1/8 in.
Titled, dated, and artist stamp.
Born in Munkacs, Hungary, John Albok learned photography as a boy. He came to the U.S. in 1921...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
The Actor Cary Grant - Vintage Photo - 1972
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
Lightly damaged (Folds on the angles).
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Norman Parkinson
Wenda and Ostriches
Located in New York, NY
Norman Parkinson
Wenda and Ostriches, 1951
C print
20 x 16 inches
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 21 on verso
British fashion model Wenda Parkinson and ostriches, fashion by...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Brooklyn Two, NY, 2010
By Bill Phelps
Located in Hudson, NY
Through light and shadow, a gaze, a mindset, Bill Phelps fourth solo show at the Robin Rice Gallery VISITOR inspires the imagination. About life, about being, eye and heart his great...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
The Protest - Historical Photographs About the Feminist Movement - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
The protest - Historical photographs about the feminist movement is an original vintage photograph realized by anonymous photographer
With the stamp of th...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Gondolas on the Grand Canal, Venice, 1950s
By Erich Andres
Located in Cologne, DE
This timeless black-and-white photograph captures a tranquil moment along the Grand Canal in Venice, showcasing the iconic gondolas that glide through the city’s waterways. In the fo...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White
Norman Parkinson
Mouche at Praia do Vau, Portugal for Vogue, January 1973
Located in New York, NY
Mouche at Praia do Vau, Portugal wearing a Nina Ricci swimsuit. British Vogue magazine, January 1973.
Mouche at Praia do Vau, Portugal for Vogue, January 1973
C print
Estate stamped...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Norman Parkinson
Fashion by Dilkusha and Paquin, for Harper’s Bazaar, 1937
Located in New York, NY
Early in Parkinson's fashion career shooting designs by Dilkusha and Paquin, for Harper’s Bazaar, August, 1937
Fashion by Dilkusha and Paquin, for Harper’s Bazaar, 1937
Silver gelat...
Category
1930s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Marc Bolan T Rex Timeless - Estate Print
Located in London, GB
Marc Bolan of T Rex at Le Chateux recording studio France 1972
Large Oversize limited edition (ed size 20 only this size) and signed
silver gelatin print....
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Modern portrait photography for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Modern portrait photography available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add portrait photography created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, red, purple, pink and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Mark Shaw, Slim Aarons, Terry O'Neill, and Kevin Westenberg. Frequently made by artists working with Paper, and Photographic Paper and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Modern portrait photography, so small editions measuring 0.63 inches across are also available. Prices for portrait photography made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $22 and tops out at $152,896, while the average work sells for $1,806.
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