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Dis, quand reviendras-tu ? 4
Charlotte Skurzak
Photography - 30 x 30 x 0.3 cm Photography - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
$337
Dis, quand reviendras-tu ? 2
Charlotte Skurzak
Photography - 30 x 30 x 0.3 cm Photography - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
$337
Dis, quand reviendras-tu ? 1
Charlotte Skurzak
Photography - 30 x 30 x 0.3 cm Photography - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
$337
Claude Viallat Portrait
Jean-Pierre Loubat
Photography - 42 x 31 x 1 cm Photography - 16.5 x 12.2 x 0.4 inch
$539
Daniel Dezeuze Portrait
Jean-Pierre Loubat
Photography - 43 x 31 x 1 cm Photography - 16.9 x 12.2 x 0.4 inch
$539
Yowa et Violette d’après l’École de Fontainebleau
Iconographia
Photography - 60 x 40 cm Photography - 23.6 x 15.7 inch
$393
Number One
Alexia Rousse
Photography - 139.7 x 96.5 x 3.3 cm Photography - 55 x 38 x 1.3 inch
$5,226
Algerie-Les Touaregs_Sahara. Tassili N'Ajjer
Nadia Ferroukhi
Photography - 27 x 40 x 2 cm Photography - 10.6 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$449
Manila Worker - Photography Art installation with 18 frames
Sven Pfrommer
Photography - 155 x 220 x 2 cm Photography - 61 x 86.6 x 0.8 inch
$9,525
Pom Klementieff, Los Angeles 2018
Mary Rozzi
Photography - 150 x 120 cm Photography - 59.1 x 47.2 inch
$3,366
L’amie de la famille.
Didier Bizet
Photography - 20 x 30 x 0.1 cm Photography - 7.9 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$333
Jade (défilé Lecoanet Hemant, Paris 1998)
Dominique DIEULOT
Photography - 42 x 33 cm Photography - 16.5 x 13 inch
$2,356
Iniciación
Jordi Valls Capell
Photography - 100 x 150 x 1 cm Photography - 39.4 x 59.1 x 0.4 inch
$8,768
Fiesta de cumpleaños
Jordi Valls Capell
Photography - 100 x 150 x 1 cm Photography - 39.4 x 59.1 x 0.4 inch
$8,768
Box set edition photographie Gabriele Galimberti.
Gabriele Galimberti
Photography - 21 x 30.5 x 1.5 cm Photography - 8.3 x 12 x 0.6 inch
$202
Statut : it's complicated
Marine Foissey
Photography - 100 x 150 x 2 cm Photography - 39.4 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
$4,151
Annachiara Color
Elvira Carrasco
Photography - 135 x 100 x 1 cm Photography - 53.1 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
$4,936
De Myrha à Babylone - Duo Jeanne 1
Valérie Donzelli
Photography - 35 x 35 cm Photography - 13.8 x 13.8 inch
$449
Juste avant l'église, série Les mariées de Pigalle
Lili Ruby Chomat
Photography - 42 x 29.7 x 0.1 cm Photography - 16.5 x 11.7 x 0 inch
$168
Série Les mariées de Pigalle
Lili Ruby Chomat
Photography - 29.7 x 42 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.7 x 16.5 x 0 inch
$168
Série Les mariées de Pigalle
Lili Ruby Chomat
Photography - 29.7 x 42 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.7 x 16.5 x 0 inch
$168
Behind Her Back
Jordana Ozier Lafontaine
Photography - 30 x 20 cm Photography - 11.8 x 7.9 inch
$292
OMO: Untitled 10
Drew Doggett
Photography - 45.7 x 68.6 x 0.3 cm Photography - 18 x 27 x 0.1 inch
$2,132
OMO: Untitled 45
Drew Doggett
Photography - 45.7 x 68.6 x 0.3 cm Photography - 18 x 27 x 0.1 inch
$2,132
Une Poignée de Lumière
Muriel Deumie
Photography - 67 x 50 x 0.2 cm Photography - 26.4 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$673
Les collectionneurs
Jean-Robert Franco
Photography - 80 x 122 cm Photography - 31.5 x 48 inch
$2,805
Composition, atelier
Jean-Robert Franco
Photography - 90 x 140 cm Photography - 35.4 x 55.1 inch
$3,366
Kate Moss. Boyfriends Underpants
Kate Garner
Photography - 127 x 101.6 cm Photography - 50 x 40 inch
$7,000
Kate Moss
Noa Grayevsky
Photography - 152.4 x 101.6 x 5.08 cm Photography - 60 x 40 x 2 inch
$22,438
Ipanema #5 "Ballons"
Hégémon (Hedge) Chaignon
Photography - 60 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$673
Ipanema #4 "Paréos"
Hégémon (Hedge) Chaignon
Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$673
Corde à sauter II
Clara Delaporte
Photography - 30 x 20 x 1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 7.9 x 0.4 inch
$337
Corde à sauter III
Clara Delaporte
Photography - 30 x 20 x 1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 7.9 x 0.4 inch
$337
Wonderalnd : Change
Ellie Sass (Sassayiannis)
Photography - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$438
Covid Escapades
Kamal Obat
Photography - 58.4 x 41.7 x 2.5 cm Photography - 23 x 16.42 x 1 inch
$800
Welcome to heartbreak
Kamal Obat
Photography - 59.4 x 42.4 x 2.5 cm Photography - 23.4 x 16.7 x 1 inch
$700
Moroccan pool
Guilhem Ribart
Photography - 60 x 40 x 2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,122
Juste un regard
Guilhem Ribart
Photography - 40 x 60 x 2 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,122
Wonderland : Faith I & Change
Ellie Sass (Sassayiannis)
Photography - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Photography - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$438
Masked Queens II
Ellie Sass (Sassayiannis)
Photography - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$617
Masked Queens I
Ellie Sass (Sassayiannis)
Photography - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$617
Soledad : Frida's Reflections II / Digital Collage
Ellie Sass (Sassayiannis)
Photography - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$617
Street Art/Photo Collage V
Ellie Sass (Sassayiannis)
Photography - 60 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$617
La solitude /
Didier Cormillot
Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.5 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.2 inch
$1,088
Portrait de Grogu
Lionel le Jeune
Photography - 50 x 50 x 0.2 cm Photography - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$393
Portrait de Grogu
Lionel le Jeune
Photography - 46 x 56 x 0.2 cm Photography - 18.1 x 22 x 0.1 inch
$393
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The tree of life
Seyran Gasparyan
Painting - 50 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,200 $1,020
Circus Acrobats
Joanna Zakrzewska-Cholewa
Sculpture - 49 x 15 x 6 cm Sculpture - 19.3 x 5.9 x 2.4 inch
$1,794
Her Softness
Kirill Postovit
Painting - 100 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,683 $1,027
The beauty of dance XII
Serghei Ghetiu
Painting - 80 x 49 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 19.3 x 0.8 inch
$1,907
Portrait #2. From the Portraits series
Luigi Christopher Veggetti Kanku
Painting - 30 x 20.8 x 0.3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 8.2 x 0.1 inch
$1,200
L'envole I - préchauffage
Patricia Dubois
Painting - 93 x 70 x 3.5 cm Painting - 36.6 x 27.6 x 1.4 inch
$2,468
Mickey Mouse Soldier
Belart Collective
Painting - 120 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$2,233
The Last Museum Guard at the Last Museum on Earth
Hernan Bas
Print - 49 x 35 cm Print - 19.3 x 13.8 inch
$1,346
Portrait Photography for Sale
In the 1830s, Nièpce discovered the process for setting images onto pewter plates. In 1833, upon Nièpce's death, Louis Daguerre and François Arago continued his experiments and invented the daguerreotype, a process which created a printed image on a silver plate that had been exposed to light. Photography was born.
Similarly to how portrait painting had dominated artistic output in previous centuries, portrait photography was to become the pillar of the Second French Empire's photographic industry. Lenses with a shorter focal length, which enabled reduced exposure times, gradually appear on the market. The required equipment was expensive and difficult to handle. Some photographers, called daguerreotypists, decided to open their own photography studios to make a profit from their endeavours. The daguerreotype process was temperamental, and photographers had to take their pictures with great precision and attention to detail. They welcomed many people into their studios and customers choose how they wished to be photographed from catalogue of poses. Originally only accessible to the bourgeoisie, lower prices resulting from the growing number of studios eventually attracted a wider customer base. This phenomenon infuriated the poet Charles Baudelaire who was frustrated by the sense of narcissism sparked by the daguerreotypists.
Despite his protests, the egotistical trend only grew with the emergence of 'carte de visite' portraits (small photographs, the size of today's business cards). These were the brainchild of Adolphe Eugène Disdéri came up with the idea of producing portraits akin to visiting cards in 1859. He printed eight portraits in a variety of poses onto a single plate and once developed they could be cut up into eight distinct “visiting cards". Very popular with the bourgeoisie, they highlighted the sitters' social status. 'Carte de visite' portraits featuring celebrities were also sold to customers, who could subsequently add them to their albums.
The photographer Nadar was one of the first to demonstrate a conscious artistic approach to producing these portraits. He emphasised facial expressions and ensured the sitter was comfortable and at ease before taking the photograph. He photographed the era's greatest thinkers and artists, including Honoré de Balzac, George Sand, and Victor Hugo. He even managed to reconcile Baudelaire with portraiture.
At the end of the 19th century, the art of photography started to enter the mainstream, with the arrival of the Kodak company. The use of the camera, and the taking of portraits, became everyday occurrences. A century later, it was the invention of the digital camera which challenged the status quo. Whereas before alterations could only be made to photographs when they were being taken or developed, with the digital camera editing became easier, quicker and more convenient. Digital photography has given photographers much more freedom when it comes to editing and new methods and techniques are constantly being explored.
Some of the photographers who have left their mark on the last century include: Cindy Sherman, who excelled in self-portraits, Annie Leibovitz, who captured celebrities, the wacky duo, Pierre and Gilles, as well as Diane Arbus, Irving Penn, Richard Avedon, Helmut Newton and Bettina Rheims.
So, do portraits help us to learn more about each other, to remember, to invent, to act, or to reconnect with ourselves? Find out on Artsper, by exploring the works of Formento & Formento, Naomi Vona, Ahmed Bennani, Chou Ching Hui, Samuel Cueto, Brno del Zou, Ren Hang, Markus + Indrani, Jerome Liebling as well as Annina Roescheisen.
What makes a portrait photograph?
A portrait photograph can be a photograph of a person's head and shoulders, but it can also be of an animal or of a different section of the subject's body such as their feet. Portrait photographs in art often tell or hint something about its subject to the viewer, such as an aspect of their personality, but still contain an element of mystery.
What are the three major types of portrait photography?
The three major types of portrait photography are posed portraits, candid or anonymous portraits, and conceptual portraits. The last type, conceptual or creative portraits, can be experimental and abstract, and may not represent an image close to a traditional portrait.
What are the six styles of portrait photography?
The six main types of portrait photography are fine art portraits, traditional portraits (for example posed portraits taken at school), lifestyle portraits, group portraits, street portraits and glamour portraits.