Contemporary Portrait Photography
CONTEMPORARY STYLE
Used to refer to a time rather than an aesthetic, Contemporary art generally describes pieces created after 1970 or being made by living artists anywhere in the world. This immediacy means it encompasses art responding to the present moment through diverse subjects, media and themes. Contemporary painting, sculpture, photography, performance, digital art, video and more frequently includes work that is attempting to reshape current ideas about what art can be, from Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s use of candy to memorialize a lover he lost to AIDS-related complications to Jenny Holzer’s ongoing “Truisms,” a Conceptual series that sees provocative messages printed on billboards, T-shirts, benches and other public places that exist outside of formal exhibitions and the conventional “white cube” of galleries.
Contemporary art has been pushing the boundaries of creative expression for years. Its disruption of the traditional concepts of art are often aiming to engage viewers in complex questions about identity, society and culture. In the latter part of the 20th century, contemporary movements included Land art, in which artists like Robert Smithson and Michael Heizer create large-scale, site-specific sculptures, installations and other works in soil and bodies of water; Sound art, with artists such as Christian Marclay and Susan Philipsz centering art on sonic experiences; and New Media art, in which mass media and digital culture inform the work of artists such as Nam June Paik and Rafaël Rozendaal.
The first decades of the 21st century have seen the growth of Contemporary African art, the revival of figurative painting, the emergence of street art and the rise of NFTs, unique digital artworks that are powered by blockchain technology.
Major Contemporary artists practicing now include Ai Weiwei, Cecily Brown, David Hockney, Yayoi Kusama, Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami and Kara Walker.
Find a collection of Contemporary prints, photography, paintings, sculptures and other art on 1stDibs.
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Style: Contemporary
Yeshiva Boys, Black-and-White Photography 1950s Jewish Diaspora Brooklyn, USA
Located in New york, NY
Yeshiva Boys, 1954 is a black-and-white photograph of two young studious boys behind a glass door, an entrance to a Brooklyn brownstone in New York City. A gelatin silver lifetime pr...
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1950s Contemporary Portrait Photography
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Photographic Paper, Photographic Film, Silver Gelatin
Kitten, Cigarette, Gucci
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Jamie Johnson is a photographer specializing in children documentary projects and well as wet plate collodion photography. As a mother and documentary ph...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Andy Warhol, Edie Sedgwick, Chuck Wein, Black and White Photo Pop Stars 1960s
By Burt Glinn
Located in New york, NY
An iconic black and white photograph, one of American photographer Burt Glinn's important images in the history of 20th century photography of artist Andy Warhol, pop star...
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1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
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Photographic Film, Silver Gelatin
Jazz City, New York Street Photography 1990s
Located in New york, NY
Drawn to street photography for her early work, Roberta Fineberg shot black-and-white film with a held-held 35mm camera in natural lighting in cities, notably New York, Paris, and Moscow.
Jazz City, New York, 1990 by Roberta Fineberg is a 10" x 8" black-and-white photograph of musicians...
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1990s Contemporary Portrait Photography
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Photographic Paper, Photographic Film, Silver Gelatin
Kate #13, Black and White Photograph of Nude Woman, Summer Yogini in California
Located in New york, NY
Kate #13, is from the Kate series, 2002 by American photographer Leonard Freed. This is a signed, 16" x 20" black and white photograph (gelatin silver), stamped/authenticated "vintag...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
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Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Mr. Harlem, Photograph of African-American Body Builder, New York City 1960s
Located in New york, NY
The image of a body builder from the 1960s captures African-American life in Harlem in the 1960s. Mr. Harlem, 1963 by Leonard Freed, is from the photographer's book Black in White Am...
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1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
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Digital Pigment, Archival Pigment, Photographic Film
Robert Kennedy (RFK) Campaign Trail, Black and White Portrait Photography 1960s
By Burt Glinn
Located in New york, NY
Burt Glinn’s black-and-white photograph of Robert Kennedy (RFK) documents a day-in-the-life euphoric moment from Robert Fitzgerald Kennedy’s (RFK) Campa...
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1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
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Silver Gelatin, Photographic Film
Marilyn Monroe: Looking Back
By Marti Cole
Located in Austin, TX
This black and white candid shot features actress and sex symbol Marilyn Monroe in a low-backed black dress. This image was captured as Monroe was walking away while surrounded by ph...
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1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
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Digital
Muscle Boy, New York City, African American Children in Harlem 1960s, Limited Ed
Located in New york, NY
Muscle Boy is an iconic image by Leonard Freed who was a pioneer in socially conscious photojournalism.
In this photo a boy flexes his muscles for the camera perhaps making a state...
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1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
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Archival Ink, Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigme...
Fashion Show, Brooklyn, New York, African American Life 1960s
Located in New york, NY
Fashion Show, Brooklyn, New York, USA 1963 by Leonard Freed is a 19" x 13" signed and numbered archival pigment print in an edition of 10. Signed by the estate, Freed's widow Brigitte Freed, on back of photograph. Available: 3/10.
Provenance: Freed Estate
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Artist’s Bio:
Leonard Freed (1929-2006) was an American photographer from Brooklyn, New York. His "Black in White America" series made him known as a documentarian, a social documentary photographer. Freed worked as a freelance photographer from 1961 onwards and as a Magnum photographer Freed traveled widely abroad and, in the US, photographing African Americans (1964-65), events in Israel (1967-68, 1973), and the New York City police department...
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1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
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Archival Pigment
Swing, Color Photography of Young Girl at the Gaudi Cathedral Barcelona, Spain
By Burt Glinn
Located in New york, NY
Burt Glinn's The Sagrada Familia, Barcelona, Swing, 1959, is a color photograph, 22” x 17”, an archival pigment print signed in pencil on verso (back of photograph) by the estate wit...
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1950s Contemporary Portrait Photography
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Archival Paper, Photographic Film, Archival Pigment
Family, Surma Tribe, Omo Valley Ethiopia, Africa, Photograph on Japanese Paper
Located in New york, NY
Family, from the Surma Tribe, 1996 by Jean-Michel (JM) Voge is a photograph of a family in the Omo Valley, Ethiopia. A group portrait of a tribal family in ...
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1990s Contemporary Portrait Photography
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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment, Digi...
World Series Win, New York City, Black and White Baseball Photography 1950s
Located in New york, NY
World Series Win, New York City, 1954 by Leonard Freed, is a 14" x 11" gelatin silver later ("lifetime") print, signed on verso (back of print) by the ...
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1950s Contemporary Portrait Photography
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Photographic Paper, Photographic Film, Silver Gelatin
Dee Dee Bridgewater and Daughter China Moses, Paris, Jazz Music 1980s
Located in New york, NY
In 1986 African-American musician Dee Dee Bridgewater left the United States and moved to Paris, France where she lived for the next fifteen years with her family, two daughters and ...
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1980s Contemporary Portrait Photography
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Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Digital, Arc...
Lace Curtains, Morocco, Contemporary Portrait Photography on Handmade Paper
Located in New york, NY
Lace curtains, Morocco, 1980 by Jean-Michel (JM) Voge, is a contemporary color photograph, an archival pigment print on handmade Awagami Japanese paper. ...
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1980s Contemporary Portrait Photography
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Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Digital, Arc...
Beauty Contest, Harlem, Black and White Photography of African American Fashion
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...
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1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
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Photographic Paper, Photographic Film, Silver Gelatin
Family by Roberta Fineberg, Black-and-White Portrait Photography 1990s France
Located in New york, NY
A photographer obsessed with the passing of time and family ties, Roberta Fineberg captures the intimate space of a grandmother and her grandson sharing lunch in a local brasserie in...
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1990s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Digital, Rag Paper, Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment
Woman Protestor, March on Washington, African-American Civil Rights Photography
Located in New york, NY
Woman Protestor, March on Washington, 1963 by Leonard Freed, is a 14" x 11" gelatin silver photograph, signed and stamped on verso (back of photo) by the estate, Brigitte Freed (wife of the photographer). The photo is in Leonard Freed's book “This Is the Day: The March on Washington'' (p. 50).
Leonard Freed enjoyed documentary storytelling and as a "concerned photographer" his work demonstrated humanitarian concerns. The photographer travelled to New York, Washington, D.C., and throughout the South, capturing the daily life of African-Americans. Documenting the 1960s Civil Rights Movement from the East Coast to the Deep South, Freed’s photo essay culminated in the book Black in White America, which contributed to Freed's becoming one of the well-known documentary photographers of 20th Century America.
After Freed’s death in 2006 his widow, Brigitte Freed was inspired to compile a book on the March on Washington from her late husband’s archive when she heard then-Senator former President Barack Obama remark to an audience of civil rights activists, “I stand here because you walked.”
The March on Washington series is a powerful visual testimony, capturing protests that culminated in Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream'' speech, delivered at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.
Provenance: Freed archive.
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Artist’s Bio:
Leonard Freed (1929-2006) was an American photographer from Brooklyn, New York. His "Black in White America" series made him known as a documentarian, a social documentary photographer. Freed worked as a freelance photographer from 1961 onwards and as a Magnum photographer Freed traveled widely abroad and, in the US, photographing African Americans (1964-65), events in Israel (1967-68, 1973), and the New York City police department (1972-79). Freed's coverage of the American civil rights...
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1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
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Photographic Paper, Photographic Film, Silver Gelatin
Berlin, Germany, African-American Soldier in Europe And Civil Rights Photography
Located in New york, NY
Berlin, Germany, 1961 by Leonard Freed, is a 14" x 11" gelatin silver print, signed and stamped on verso (back of photo) by the estate, by Brigitte Freed (wife of the photographer).
The photograph of an African-American soldier...
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1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
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Photographic Paper, Photographic Film, Silver Gelatin
Fire Hydrant, Harlem, Portrait Photography of African American Children 1960s
Located in New york, NY
Punctuated by documentary photo essays such as Black in White America, Fire Hydrant is one of Leonard Freed's most iconic in the Harlem series. In the image of Fire Hydrant, two chil...
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1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
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Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment, Digital Pi...
Martin Luther King, Black and White Limited Edition Photograph of MLK 1960s
Located in New york, NY
Martin Luther King (MLK), 1964 by Leonard Freed is an iconic black and white documentary photograph, a portrait of one of the most influential African American personalities and civi...
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1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Photographic Film, Digital, Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment
Harlem, Photograph of African American Everyday Life in New York City 1950s
Located in New york, NY
Harlem, 1954 by Leonard Freed, is a 14” x 11” photograph from the photographer's Black in White America book (p. 91). The gelatin silver print from the estate is stamped verso (back ...
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1950s Contemporary Portrait Photography
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Photographic Paper, Photographic Film, Silver Gelatin
Miss Tic, Paris, France, Black-and-White Photograph of French Woman Artist
Located in New york, NY
French Poet, visual artist, and female figure of street art, graffiti artist Miss Tic (1956 - 2022), a contemporary French woman artist who printed her 'pocho...
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1880s Contemporary Portrait Photography
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Digital, Rag Paper, Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment
Sara, France, Contemporary Color Photograph on Siblings
By Julia Gat
Located in New york, NY
Sara, France, 2018 by Julia Gat is a 19” x 13” archival pigment print, edition 1/5, titled, dated, signed on photo verso, and printed by the artist.
Julia Gat enjoys observing everyday life and documenting photographically what she refers to as chaotic harmony. Often using her large family and circle of friends as models in her work, Julia is drawn simultaneously to heart-warming intimacy and provocative freedom.
Based in France, the photographer as a child was home-schooled. Alternative education has played a significant role in her work. Julia has been immersed in an artistic milieu in her native Israel and her adopted home in Marseille, France where she has grown up in a family of 6.
Provenance: Gat Studio
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Artist’s Bio:
Born in Israel in 1997 Julia Gat won the European Prize ISEM Young Photographers in 2020 and 1st Prize at the Portrait Festival 2016 (Vichy, France). In 2017 her photography was exhibited at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie (Paris), and then at the Netherlands photo museum (2021-2022). In 2022 she exhibited at Arles Photo Festival. Her first photo book with French publisher Actes Sud was released in 2022 during the annual summer photography...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
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Archival Pigment, Digital, Digital Pigment
X-Ray, Park Avenue, New York City, Contemporary Color Photography at Night
Located in New york, NY
For X-Ray, New York City, 2012 by Roberta Fineberg, the artist uses long-exposure photography and light trails for the color photograph of a woman crossing Park Avenue in New York Ci...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment, Digi...
Botero in his Studio, Paris, Photograph of Legendary Artist Fernando Botero
Located in New york, NY
Fernando Botero in his Studio, Paris, 1992 by Jean-Michel Voge is a 13" x 19" archival pigment print in an edition of 5, printed by the photographer on handmade Japanese Awagami pape...
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1990s Contemporary Portrait Photography
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Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Digital, Arc...
Two Sisters, Omo Valley Ethiopia Africa, Tribal Family Photographic Portrait
Located in New york, NY
On handmade Japanese Awagami paper the Two Sisters is from a series on the Nomadic Surma tribe in Omo Valley in Ethiopia, Africa by JM Voge. An editioned pr...
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1990s Contemporary Portrait Photography
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Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Rag Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment, Digi...
Fire Hydrant, Harlem, New York, Black and White Photo African American Children
Located in New york, NY
Fire Hydrant, Harlem, 1963 by Leonard Freed is a 24" x 20" gelatin silver photograph signed by the photographer on verso (back). Provenance: Freed archive. LITERATURE: W. A. Ewing, N...
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1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
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Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin, Photographic Film
Louise Bourgeois in her Studio, New York City, Woman Artist
Located in New york, NY
A unique print of Louise Bourgeois, in her studio, New York City, 1992 by Jean-Michel Voge. This is a 17" x 23" archival pigment print on Japanese Awagami handmade paper in an editio...
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1990s Contemporary Portrait Photography
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Archival Ink, Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Archival Pig...
Fanny Ardant, Paris, France, Contemporary Portrait Photography of French Actress
Located in New york, NY
Fanny Ardant, Paris, France, 1990 by Jean-Michel Voge is a contemporary color portrait of the internationally-known and stunning actress Fanny Ardant (b. ...
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1990s Contemporary Portrait Photography
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Archival Ink, Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Archival Pig...
Arno River, Florence, Italy, Street Photography of Soldiers
Located in New york, NY
This is a black and white photograph of three soldiers seated on a bridge, above the Arno River, Florence, Italy 1958 by Leonard Freed. It is a 12" x 16" ge...
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1950s Contemporary Portrait Photography
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Photographic Paper, Photographic Film, Silver Gelatin
Fashion Show, Harlem NY, Black and White Photograph African American Life 1960s
Located in New york, NY
Fashion Show, 1963, Harlem, USA by Leonard Freed, is a 11” x 14” gelatin silver print, which appears in the photographer's seminal Black in White America book (p. 104). The photograp...
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1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Photographic Film, Silver Gelatin
Modern Man, New York by Roberta Fineberg, Contemporary Color Pop Art Photo
Located in New york, NY
Shot on the streets of East Harlem, New York, a neon-yellow pop art photographic portrait called Modern Man by Roberta Fineberg.
Modern Man, 2011 by Rober...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
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Digital, Archival Paper, Archival Ink
Subway Star, Street Photography New York City, Limited Edition Photograph
Located in New york, NY
A portrait of an African-American street musician In star-shaped sunglasses, with his sax in hand on the #6 Train in New York City. Subway Star, NYC, 2010 by Roberta Fineberg is 17" ...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
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Digital, Archival Pigment, Archival Paper
Paris Longchamp, Vintage Black and White Photograph of Parisian Elite 1980s
Located in New york, NY
Paris Longchamp, 1989 by Leonard Freed is stamped and signed verso (back of photo), a gelatin silver vintage print, 16" x 12". The documentary photograph captures chic beautiful peop...
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1980s Contemporary Portrait Photography
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Photographic Paper, Photographic Film, Silver Gelatin
Dogs, USA, Greenwich, CT, Black and White Photograph of Pets in Sports Cars
Located in New york, NY
Dogs, USA, Greenwich, CT is a 5" x 7" black and white photograph, stamped “vintage” by the Freed estate on verso (back) of gelatin silver press. Provenance: Freed archive.
The photo...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
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Silver Gelatin, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
Mixed Emotions, Contemporary Photography by Roberta Fineberg
Located in New york, NY
This is a contemporary color photograph by Roberta Fineberg, an homage to great Italian cinema of the 1960s, including French actor Jean-Paul Belmondo and Italian actress Claudia Car...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
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Archival Pigment, Rice Paper, Digital Pigment, Digital
Birmingham Children, Vintage Black and White Civil Rights Photography 1960s
Located in New york, NY
Birmingham Children, 1963 by American photographer Leonard Freed is a 16" x 12" vintage gelatin silver photograph, signed verso (on back) by the photographer. A photo that depicts th...
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1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
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Silver Gelatin, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
Kate, Contemporary Black and White Portrait Photography of Female Nude
Located in New york, NY
Kate, from the Kate series, Garrison, New York, 2002 by American photographer Leonard Freed is an 11” x 14” gelatin silver photograph signed verso (on back of photo) by the estate.
...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
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Silver Gelatin, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
Willy Nelson, Texas, Country Music Singer Portrait Photography 1990s
Located in New york, NY
Willy Nelson, 1993 by American photographer Leonard Freed is a series of (3) photographs, gelatin silver press RC prints, which are each signed verso (bac...
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1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
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Silver Gelatin, Photographic Paper, Photographic Film
Bus Ride, Black-and-White Street Photography Paris, France 1980s
Located in New york, NY
A black-and-white image of a French woman a Parisian captured on film by Roberta Fineberg. The subject of the photograph is lost in thought en route on a bus winding through the maze...
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1980s Contemporary Portrait Photography
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Silver Gelatin, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
In the Country, Black-and-White Portrait of Woman in French Countryside
Located in New york, NY
In the Country, 1988 is by Roberta Fineberg. A black-and-white documentary-style portrait of a French woman in the countryside - from northeast France, the Haute-Marne, the subject is photographed against a backdrop of fresh-cut hay. Far from Paris the French maintain deep connections with the land - owning often an ancestral house in the countryside, often rustic, a nation equally rooted in the agrarian.
An 11" x 14" gelatin silver print (analog/film) in an edition of 5, the photograph is signed and editioned on recto (in margin) by the artist.
Provenance: RF Archive
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Artist's Bio:
As a photographer and visual artist, Roberta Fineberg (RF) focuses on the themes of serendipity, inventiveness, and development of ideas for her photography, video, installations, works on paper, and painting. Drawn to experimentation, she explores diverse mediums and subjects such as the ephemeral (butterfly series), stolen moments (documentary work), play, timelessness, the enduring, and significance of matter.
In July 2022, Roberta Fineberg’s Double Helix was included in a Sotheby’s auction in New York City and exhibited in the preview show Contemporary Discoveries. Selected exhibitions include: Time Gallery New York (2022), Phyllis Harriman Gallery New York studio shows (2022; 2020), CADAF online art fair (2020), Gallery122 New York pop-up group...
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1980s Contemporary Portrait Photography
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Silver Gelatin, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
Bistro, Street Photography Paris, France 1980s
Located in New york, NY
A black-and-white image shot on film by Roberta Fineberg becomes an abstract chiaroscuro portrait of a woman in elegant clothing -- a semi-sophi...
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1980s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Photographic Paper, Photographic Film, Archival Paper
Diane the Huntress, France, Mythology Inspired Black and White Portrait Photo
Located in New york, NY
A black and white photograph of a woman dressed in costume - goddess of the hunt, the moon, and nature - in mythology, Diana, the huntress a maiden with blond braids and a gold tiara. The mask on the back of the goddess invites us into the spirit world ... the subject photographed at a countryside masked ball in St Martin d'Ardeche, France.
Diana the Huntress, France, 1989 by Roberta Fineberg is a signed 14 x 11 gelatin silver print in an edition of 5.
Provenance: RF Archive
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Artist's Bio:
As a photographer and visual artist, Roberta Fineberg (RF) focuses on the themes of serendipity, inventiveness, and development of ideas for her photography, video, installations, works on paper, and painting. Drawn to experimentation, she explores diverse mediums and subjects such as the ephemeral (butterfly series), stolen moments (documentary work), play, timelessness, the enduring, and significance of matter.
In July 2022, Roberta Fineberg’s Double Helix was included in a Sotheby’s auction in New York City and exhibited in the preview show Contemporary Discoveries. Selected exhibitions include: Time Gallery New York (2022), Phyllis Harriman Gallery New York studio shows (2022; 2020), CADAF online art fair (2020), Gallery122 New York pop-up group...
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1980s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Photographic Paper, Photographic Film
Kate #11, Vintage Gelatin Silver Photograph of Nude in Yoga Pose
Located in New york, NY
Kate #11, 2002 by Leonard Freed is a signed verso (back of photo) 8" x 10" black and white photograph, hand printed, signed by the photographer and stamped "vintage" by the Freed est...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
Kate #13, Vintage Gelatin Silver Photograph of Female Figure, Dance and Yoga
Located in New york, NY
Kate #13, is from the Kate series, 2002 by American photographer Leonard Freed is a signed, 8" x 10" (small format) black and white photograph (gelatin silver), stamped "vintage" on ...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
Kate #16, Vintage Gelatin Silver Print of Female Nude
Located in New york, NY
Kate #16, 2002 is a vintage 8" x 10" black and white photograph from the series "Kate." Model Kate remains complicit in striking and defining dramatic poses for Freed. The photograph...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
Helen Frankenthaler and David Smith, New York, Portrait of Two American Artists
By Burt Glinn
Located in New york, NY
Painter Helen Frankenthaler and sculptor David Smith in Frankenthaler's studio in New York City, 1957 is a gelatin silver print, 20” x 16”, signed and stamped by the Glinn estate. Th...
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1950s Contemporary Portrait Photography
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Silver Gelatin, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
Bride, Naples, Italy, Black and White Street Photography 1950s
Located in New york, NY
Bride, Naples, Italy, 1958 by Leonard Freed is a black and white contemporary photograph, cinematic in nature. This is a gelatin silver, signed by the photographer, lifetime print, 24" x 20" from the Freed archive.
LITERATURE: W. A. Ewing, N. Herschdorfer, and W. van Sinderen, Worldview, Leonard Freed, Steidl, 2007, p. 73 and back cover.
Leonard Freed discovered Little Italy in New York...
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1950s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
Hugh Hefner at The Playboy mansion, Black and White Photography 1960s
By Burt Glinn
Located in New york, NY
Hugh Hefner, 1966 by Burt Glinn is a 16" x 20" portrait in Chicago, IL of the founder of playboy magazine. Hefner is on the phone on a circular bed surrou...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
Hugh Hefner, Vintage 1960s Black and White Photography of Celebrity Playboy
By Burt Glinn
Located in New york, NY
A black-and-white 12" x 8" vintage photograph of Editor-in-chief Hugh Hefner checking proofs for Playboy magazine, 1966 by Burt Glinn. A historical photo...
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1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
Andy Warhol, Edie Sedgwick, Chuck Wein, Color Photography of Artists 1960s
By Burt Glinn
Located in New york, NY
A 22” x 17” archival pigment color print of Andy Warhol, Edie Sedgwick, and Chuck Wein, 1965. The Glinn estate signature is on verso (back of photograph) with Glinn's blind stamp in ...
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1950s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Film, Archival Pigment
Jayne Mansfield: Modern Pinup
By Frank Worth
Located in Austin, TX
This beautiful modern pinup features the lovely Jayne Mansfield posed on barstools with modern art on the walls.
Jayne Mansfield was an American film, theater, and television actre...
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1950s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment
Elizabeth Taylor Wedding Day
By Frank Worth
Located in Austin, TX
Candid black and white image of Elizabeth Taylor in a flowing wedding gown exiting a car with her father during her first wedding on May 6, 1950, in Los Angeles, California.
Eliza...
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1950s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment
Mick Jagger, 1989
Located in New York, NY
16x20”
Limited Edition
Signed by the Photographer
Next available edition printed upon purchase.
Please allow extra production time.
Category
Mid-20th Century Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Kate #10, Vintage Black and White Photograph of Nude Yogini
Located in New york, NY
Kate #10, 2002 by Leonard Freed is an 8" x 10" hand printed. Signed by the photographer black and white photograph, stamped "vintage" by the Freed estate. Model and yogini Kate remai...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin, Photographic Film
1 Stefanie Schneider's Mini 'Male Nude' - signed
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
1 Stefanie Schneider Mini 'Male Nude' - 1999 -
signed in front, not mounted.
1 Digital Color Photographs based on a Polaroid.
Polaroid sized open Editions 1999-2016
10.7 x 8.8cm...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print, Archival Paper, Polaroid, Lambda, Color
Anette Funicello: Mouseketeer at the Carnival
Located in Austin, TX
The beautiful Annette Funicello. The child star rose to fame as one of the most prevalent Mouseketeers on the Mickey Mouse Club. As a teenager, she transitioned to a successful caree...
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1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Contemporary portrait photography for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Contemporary 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, orange, purple, red and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Stefanie Schneider, Tyler Shields, Urizen Freaza, and Clare Marie Bailey. 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 Contemporary portrait photography, so small editions measuring 1.58 inches across are also available.
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