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QUESTIONS• How have photographers attempted to reveal more about the sitter for a portrait
than merely their appearance? • Compare and Contrast how the portrait has changed throughout the history of
photography.• Compare and contrast how the development of photographic portraiture has been
influenced by Painting and vice versa.• To reveal the individual before his camera, to transfer the living quality of that
individual to his finished print...Not to make road maps but to record the essential truth of the subject; not to show how this person looks, but to show what he is. - Edward Weston - Edward Weston's definition of the role of the portrait photographer. ("The Portrait in
Photography", Reaktion Books, London 1992, Mick Gidley, p136 – 137). Discuss portraits by a number of photographers that seem to articulate Weston’s vision for portraiture and compare them with those that fall short.
• Creativity with portraits involves the invocation of a state of rapport when only a camera stands between two people...mutual vulnerability and mutual trust. - Minor White, (Mirrors, messages, manifestations by Minor White)
Portrait Photographers
• Sam Taylor Wood
• Claude Cahun• Florence
Henri• Julia Margaret
Cameron• Disderi
• Cecil Beaton• Jane Bown• Nadar• Richard
Avedon• Irving Penn• Ida Barr• Rankin
• Nicholas Nixon
• Diane Arbus• August
Sander
Portrait Artists
• Hans Holbein• Jan Van Eyck• Maggi Hambling• Thomas
Gainsborough• Diego Velasquez• Rembrandt• Vermeer• Lucien Freud
• Francis Bacon• Ferdinand
Hodler• Ingres• Francois
Boucher• Joshua
Reynolds• Frida Kahlo
• Van Gogh• John Singer
Sargent• Edgar Degas• Edouard
Vuillard• Paul Bonnard
Julia Margaret Cameron
Linked to Pre-Raphaelite aesthetic
Richard Billingham
Photographs his family unflinchingly.Provides and alternative to the sanitized and heavily edited family albums we are more used to seeing.As he wanted to use these images to make paintings from he makes strong references to the paintings of Vuillard, Bonnard and the Impressionists.
RINEKE DIJKSTRA• Awkward adolescent
subject isolated from context.
• In transition• Similar to Diane Arbus?
HELLEN VAN MEENE• Untitled 2000• Awkward pose noticed not constructed• Contrast between clothing, make-up and body stage.
Job Hunt 1976After three weeks he still couldn’t find a job.His mother said to him, ‘maybe you’re not good enough’. Tracey Moffatt
Scarred for Life series1994
Jan Van EyckArnolfini Marriage 1434
Thomas Gainsborough Mr and Mrs Andrews 1750