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Portrait Photography For Sale
Rhinoceros #2, Albuquerque, NM, 2013 - Animal Portrait Photography
By Brad Wilson
Located in Paris, FR
'Rhinoceros #2, Albuquerque, NM, 2013' is a limited-edition fine art photograph by American photographer Brad Wilson. Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Fine Art Baryta Paper, 2013...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
East Village Bums, Tramps Smoking and Drinking at Blue Green Wall
Located in Miami, FL
Four East Village down-and-out derelicts and apparent friends sit on a step and engage in a lively chat. They are smoking and drinking. Street Photographer Mitchell Funk captures the...
Category
1960s Impressionist Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Jinx in goggles, Florence, Italy by Ruth Orkin, 1951, Silver Gelatin Print
By Ruth Orkin
Located in Dallas, TX
Jinx in Goggles, Florence, Italy by Ruth Orkin is a black and white portrait of a woman, wearing goggles with a white cap underneath. This photograph is part of Orkin's series, Ameri...
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Frida Biting Her Necklace by Lucienne Bloch, 1933, Silver Gelatin Print
Located in Dallas, TX
Frida Biting Her Necklace features a portrait of Frida Kahlo sitting in a chair while biting her necklace. Her head is slightly turned as she stares at the viewer.
Frida Biting Her ...
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Thomas Ruff, Queen in Car - Double-sided digital pigment print, Signed Print
By Thomas Ruff
Located in Hamburg, DE
Thomas Ruff (German, b. 1958)
Queen in Car, 2021
Medium: Double-sided digital pigment print on cardboard (glossy front, matt verso)
Dimensions: 15 x 20 cm
Edition of 30: Hand-signed ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
Death comes to you, Day of the Dead, Dia de los Muertos, Isla Mujeres, Mexico, 2
Located in Toronto, ON
Death comes to you, Day of the Dead, Dia de los Muertos, Isla Mujeres, Mexico, 2023
Photograph by Cosmo Condina in Black and White of a woman dressed for the celebration of the Day ...
Category
2010s Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Man in Colorful African Theme Clothes Illuminated by Shaft of Light
Located in Miami, FL
Rays of golden light burn through New York's streets and illuminate a man dressed in a vivid African-themed shirt with matching shorts. He dominates the composition that emphasizes ...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
"The Cure Gets Caught on Columbus Ave., NYC 4/11/80" photo by Allan Tannenbaum
Located in Boca Raton, FL
"The Cure Gets Caught on Columbus Ave., NYC 4/11/80" black and white photograph by Allan Tannenbaum. Image size: 9 x 13 inches. The text reads: "The Cure New York City 1980. In 1978, the Sussex ensemble led by Robert Smith changed its name from Easy Cure to the name that would follow them into the pages of music history - the Cure. Their debut album, 'Three Imaginary Boys...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Stallion Portrait: Slickly - Mane - Champion Horse's hair portrait print
Located in London, GB
Slickly was a world champion miler and leading French sire.
Series: Studio Portraits, Slickly - 'Mane', 2009 by John Reardon
Archival Pigment Print on Ha...
Category
Early 2000s Conceptual Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Col...
"Messiah is Hear" with Godly Light, Celestial Light
Located in Miami, FL
A New York City street sign is viewed from the back. Posted to it's metallic surface are two street bills featuring a religious figure in a ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Cape Cross - Studio Portrait, Stallion, Champion, Equine Art Print Unframed
Located in London, GB
Cape Cross (13 March 1994 – 21 April 2017) was an Irish-bred Thoroughbred racehorse. He is a son of the July Cup winner Green Desert and Cheveley Park Stakes, winner Park Appeal who ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Bla...
Old Miami Beach at Night - Ethereal Wolfie's Restaurant Neon
Located in Miami, FL
The ethereal neon sign of a Miami Beach classic glows at night. Customers of Wolfie's Restaurant are seen through a window, while a backlit bus stop lightbox illuminates a single ma...
Category
Early 2000s American Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Whimsical Woman with Colorfully Fanciful Outfit Blue Eyeglasses
Located in Miami, FL
Street Photographer Mitchell Funk captures a frontal portrait of an older woman with an inventively outrageous look. Piercing blue circular eyeglasses and a handmade pointy hat remin...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
"Jimi at Woburn Festival 1968" framed B&W photograph by Michael Putland
Located in Boca Raton, FL
"Jimi at Woburn Festival 1968" framed black and white photograph by Michael Putland of Jimi Hendrix at the July 6, 1968, Woburn Music Festival in England. "Jimi at Woburn Festival 1...
Category
1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Fly to the Sky. Boy Holding Big Bird in the Bronx
By Robert Funk
Located in Miami, FL
The big bird is a painting. I painted it. It's oil on canvas. I mounted it on plywood and silhouetted it with a jigsaw. I took the silhouetted bird with me on the subway. We each had our own seat on the trip from Brooklyn to the Bronx
The station has changed. In a Google stock image photo, you can see the geniuses have destroyed the beautiful character of the station. The early 20th-century signage and lighting fixtures have been changed by soulless and cheap-looking replacements.
Robert Funk is a pioneer of toy photography, doll photography...
Category
1970s American Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Women on Top
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Limited Edition, Unique Variant Print.
Two women in round toed-pumps with skirts blowing in the wind, three men in overcoats with hats in their hands. This flirty diptych was inspired by the glamorous style of the 1960's, turning the tables and putting women on top, men below with hats off.
+ Cyanotype hand-printed on Arches BFK Rives French watercolor paper
+ Deckled Edges on all four sides
+ Signed and editioned on front in pencil
+ Letter of Authenticity
+ Printed in Los Angeles, CA
WHAT IS A CYANOTYPE?
cyan = blue
type = print
Cyanotype is a historic photographic processes, invented in 1842 and used by Anna Atkins–the first female photographer. The process involves coating watercolor paper with light-sensitive chemistry made of iron salts. Photographic negatives are laid on top, exposed in the sunlight, and then washed in water to develop into the deep Prussian-blue unique to cyanotypes. Brings a moment of beauty and conversation to any space.
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Alexandra DeFurio...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Film, Watercolor, Magazine Paper, Color, Photogram
Interracial Friends Lost in Thought in a Brooklyn Playground
Located in Miami, FL
Street Photographer Mitchell Funk uses of a 500mm telephoto lens to capture the two subjects lost in thought. Selective focus throws the background out of focus and creates a dreamy...
Category
1970s Post-Impressionist Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Paper, Archival Ink
African American Youth With Water Reflections
Located in Miami, FL
In the early 1970's Mitchell Funk was a trailblazer of color photography. In this stunning portrait the photographer merges naturalism and representation with abstraction. A candid s...
Category
1970s Conceptual Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Astronaut Space Walks on Park Avenue Manhattan
Located in Miami, FL
An unexpected pedestrian is caught walking across Park Avenue on a rainy day. We are not sure where he came from or where he is going but he seems like he is on a mission. The Astro...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Christine's Arrangement 1/10 - still-life, color, photography, giclée print
By Shani Mootoo
Located in Bloomfield, ON
A dark wood dresser, a collection of objects—family photos, porcelain turtle statues, a china plate, a bottle of perfume—meaningful objects that tell...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Giclée
Dust III, Kenya, Elephant, animal, wildlife, color photography, africa
Located in Munich, DE
Edition 15
More sizes on request
For several days I went out with these baby elephants of the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust to the bush in Tsavo East, Kenya. Together with their ke...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Neighborhood Kids on Stoop in Red Hood Brooklyn - Vintage Brooklyn
Located in Miami, FL
Kids from the Neighborhood in Red Hood Brooklyn are hanging out. This is what Brooklyn was like in the early 1970s. Notice the metal garbage cans.
S...
Category
1970s Impressionist Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
L’artiste est dans la cave
By Urs Lüthi
Located in Torino, TO
Urs Lüthi with his various alter egos and androgynous self-portraits raises questions about identity through the use of the body. Faces uncertain between masculine and feminine, bodi...
Category
1970s Performance Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Kids with Colorful Clothes in Brooklyn Park - Color Photography Pioneer
Located in Miami, FL
In the 1970s color photography was still not recognized as fine art. As a street photographer, Mitchell Funk breaks with traditional black and white photography and shoots on the street with Kodachrome. His goal is to make color photography full of color. In this image, notice how the colors of the kids...
Category
1970s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Urban Sunbather, New York City - Smaller Print Size
Located in Miami, FL
Elevated view of women sunbathing on basketball court in New York City with unexpected color relationships.
The actual color will vary from monitor to monitor.
The work is Signed dat...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
Donald Baechler Polaroid Triptych
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
The series of three polaroids of Donald Baechler sold together.
Donald Baechler is an American painter and assemblage artist who came into recognition amid the bourgeoning art scene ...
Category
1980s Pop Art Portrait Photography
Materials
Polaroid
Slim Aarons - Joan Collins Relaxes - Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons - Joan Collins Relaxes - Estate Stamped
Film star Joan Collins relaxes with her pink poodle on her pink bed. (Photo by Slim Aarons)
...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Chanel Vertical, 1990
By Todd Burris
Located in Hudson, NY
Listing is for UNFRAMED print.
Edition 1 of 15.
CURRENT EXHIBITION - runs through September 4th, 2016. Any framed photographs purchased during the show will be available after September 4th. If the exhibition piece is sold or the customer orders a different print size, the photograph is produced upon purchase. Please allow two weeks for production.
Shipping time depends on method of shipping.
Price is subject to availability. The Robin Rice Gallery reserves the right to adjust this price depending on the current edition of the photograph.
ABOUT: Since the early ‘90s, gallerist Robin Rice and designer Antony Todd...
Category
1990s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Silver Gelatin
Running Dog in First Light with Long Shadows
Located in Miami, FL
First light skims across the schoolyard pavement creating long and dramatic shadows. A golden dog is captured running through the scene and blends in creating a de Chirico like a su...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Greenwich village Street Scene with Colorful Walls - Street Photography
Located in Miami, FL
In the 1970s, color photography was still not recognized as fine art. As a street photographer, Mitchell Funk breaks with traditional black and white photography and shoots on the ...
Category
1970s Impressionist Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Black Bird on Colorful Subway Light - Fine Art Photography
Located in Miami, FL
This unexpected bird portrait was a grab shot as street photographer Mitchell Funk was entering the New York City subway. The real charm of the image is that it's more of an abstrac...
Category
2010s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Acrylic, Archival Pigment
Black Boy Broken Glass Brooklyn Museum Color Photography Show by Henri Ghent
Located in Miami, FL
An early example of a street photography portrait in color and multiple exposures with an image of broken glass . Exhibited: Images en Couleur, Brooklyn Museum, 1970. ( This was firs...
Category
1970s American Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Ink
Sisters 1
Located in LEVALLOIS-PERRET, FR
Quality fine art print of creative portrait photography in a limited edition. Inspired by the portrait of Gabrielle d'Estrées and her sister. Kayee explores close relationships with ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Rag Paper, Digital Pigment
Barbra Streisand
Located in Palm Desert, CA
This black and white photograph is a portrait of Barbara Streisand backstage, getting ready for a performance. It is a beautiful and intimate portrait of the celebrity.
Category
1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Horses in the Rain, East Hampton
Located in Miami, FL
This image is signed, dated and numbered 2/15 lower right recto. Other sizes are available. The work is unframed and printed later. Can a street photograph be a grab shot and precise...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Trumpet Jazz Musician and Statue of Liberty
Located in Miami, FL
The photo represents a synthesis of Americana. Jazz meets the Statue of Liberty during a perfect sunset.
Signed, dated lower and numbered 3/25 lower right recto, unframed, printe...
Category
1980s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Inkjet
Business Man Rises Above the Manhattan Skyline - Staged Photography
By Robert Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A two-inch plastic toy figure of a suited man is placed on top of an extended firetruck ladder. The toy truck and man are placed on the roof of a Brooklyn Heights building and positioned directly in front of the lower Manhattan skyline. At the time, it was the very center of of world commerce. The two-inch toy man raises above the tallest and most important buildings , including the recently finished World Trade Center Twin Towers. Clearly, this man is above it all and this photo is more than child's play.
The work is signed, numbered 2/15, dated and titled lr. printed later, unframed, Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper
Robert Funk is a pioneer of toy, doll, miniature, plastic thingies and staged photography. He also photographs his own paintings. Most of his work is done on location. He does not use photoshop to strip in images. He doesn’t take photographs he creates photographs and has works dating from 1973. He was widely published in the 1970's and early 1980's. As an undergrad in painting, he studied with first-generation abstract expressionist Robert Richenburg...
Category
1970s Conceptual Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Kids having Fun in front East Village Yellow Wall, Street Photography in Color
Located in Miami, FL
The early 1970s was a period of reexamination of the state of photography for Mitchell Funk. He broke with the tradition of shooting gritty street photography in black and white and ...
Category
1970s Color-Field Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Halston, Dolly Parton & Andy Warhol at Studio 54
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This work is unique.
Stamped on the reverse by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Foundation number also on verso.
The work comes with an Authentication Letter from the Andy Warhol Authentication Board, Inc.
Provenance: Gift of the Artist to Pat Hackett to Hedges Projects...
Category
Late 20th Century Pop Art Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Spiritual Hare Krishna Central Park, Consciousness is the Original Energy
Located in Miami, FL
In the early 1970s, Central Park was a center for celebrations and protests. In his image, the Hare Krishnas who are a mystical sect of Hinduism are capture in singing their mantra....
Category
1970s Street Art Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Dog Park in Magenta - Dogs and People having Fun
Located in Miami, FL
New Yorkers walk their dogs in an upper east side park. The scene is shot at dawn. First light skims across the ground and gives the whole picture a mesmerizing quality in pinks and...
Category
2010s Impressionist Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Skid Row Bowery Street Portrait - The Streets of New York
Located in Miami, FL
Street Photographer Mitchell Funk breaks with tradition and shoots street photography in color. Today in 2022, this does not seem like a big deal. But 52 years ago, in 1970, it was q...
Category
1970s Expressionist Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Donald Baechler
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A set of four (4) photographs by Andy Warhol. “Donald Baechler” is a set of four Polaroids, Polacolors by American Pop Artist Andy Warhol. The artwork is numbered FA05.00957, FA05.00...
Category
Late 20th Century Pop Art Portrait Photography
Materials
Polaroid
Elephant Close Up at Sunset with Wide Angle Lens, Life Magazine
Located in Miami, FL
This elephant portrait was done on assignment for Life Magazine. It was for a story about a group of three elephants who stomped to death their trainer.
In an attempt to save the ele...
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment, Archival Ink
Gay San Francisco , Folsom Street Fair. BDSM Leather LGBTQ FETISH
Located in Miami, FL
Can a street photograph be a grab shot and precisely designed at the same time? Mitchell Funk says yes. He brings finely honed photography skills such as composition, intense lightin...
Category
2010s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Inkjet
Fashion Red Hat in Paris
Located in Miami, FL
Fashion Hat in Paris. Style above it all.
A graphic statement in red, black and green
Signed and dated on the lower right, numbered on verso, Edition 3 of 15, Printed later. Unf...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Geometric Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Lagerfeld Above Chanel, Fall/Winter 2006, Paris C-print by Simon Procter
Located in Boca Raton, FL
Black and white C-print portrait of fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld above Chanel logo by fine art fashion photographer Simon Procter. Framed in white wooden frame. Part of an edition...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Rudolf Nureyev, New York City, 1963-Elliott Erwitt (Black and White Photography)
Located in London, GB
Rudolf Nureyev, New York City, 1963-Elliott Erwitt (Black and White Photography)
Signed, inscribed with title and dated on accompanying artist’s label
Silver gelatin print, printed l...
Category
Mid-20th Century Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Toy Rocking Horse, Naive Fun Pink Orange Photograph, Kids Room, Children's room
Located in Miami, FL
Mitchell Funk photographs a child's Rocking Horse Ride in the snow. The inherent beauty of this moving sculpture for kids is enhanced as flakes of w...
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Sabrett Hot Dog Vendors, New York City
By Neal Slavin
Located in New York, NY
42 x 42 inch digital chromogenic print
Framed to 43 x 43 inches, with museum-quality non-reflective Optium plexi.
#7 from the edition of 8
Signed, titled, dated and editioned on labe...
Category
1970s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Digital
Gun Hill Road. Boy Holding a Big Bird - Staged Photography
By Robert Funk
Located in Miami, FL
The big bird is a painting. I painted it. It's oil on canvas. I mounted it on plywood and silhouetted it with a jigsaw. I took the silhouetted bird with me on the subway. We each had our own seat on the trip Brooklyn to the Bronx
The station has changed. In a google stock image photo, you can see the geniuses have destroyed the beautiful character of the station. The early 20th-century signage and lighting fixtures have been changed by soulless and cheap looking replacements.
Robert Funk is a pioneer of toy photography, doll photography...
Category
1970s American Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Peacock Blue and Green. Colorful Pheasant Bird
By Robert Funk
Located in Miami, FL
This close-up of a peacock displaying is defined by late, dramatic light.
The photographer is lying on his belly in the dirt - inches from the bird to get this intimate upward-look...
Category
2010s Impressionist Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Silhouette Man in Central Park with Golden Light
Located in Miami, FL
Shipping should be around $100. In the early 1970's, there were no skyscrapers blocking later afternoon light from illuminating trees and rambles of Central Park.
The last golden ray...
Category
1970s Post-Impressionist Portrait Photography
Materials
Inkjet
Robert Redford, 1964 - Jerry Schatzberg (Portrait Photography)
Located in London, GB
Robert Redford, 1964 - Jerry Schatzberg (Portrait Photography)
Signed on reverse
Silver Gelatin Print
Printed on 16 x 20 inch paper
from an edition of 20
Jerry Schatzberg’s portrait...
Category
1960s Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Dreamy Bronze Statue in Central with onlookers
Located in Miami, FL
Signed, dated, numbered lower right, recto 4/15, unframed, other sizes available, printed later, Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper
It's an in-camera multiple exposures of two figures on a Central Park bench...
Category
1970s Surrealist Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Inkjet
Romantic Street Musician Playing the Saxophone in Golden Light and Orange
Located in Miami, FL
Golden orange light caresses a street musician as he serenades the public. We can not actually hear his music but the way the picture has been crafted in beautiful tones of orange a...
Category
2010s Romantic Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Mysterious Beautiful Young Woman Peers though and Green Blinds, Fine Art Photo
Located in Miami, FL
The effect of an abstract painting in green-blue is created when street photographer Mitchell Funk snaps a picture of a restaurant window. A vase with yellow and pink flowers frame...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Psychedelic Hippie Guitar Player Groovy Washington Square Park
Located in Miami, FL
Shipping should be around $100. In-Camera Multiple Exposure with colored filters and emulsion match burn on 35mm slide
Signed, dated, numbered lower right, recto. Edition 4 of 15, ...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Inkjet
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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