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“Photographs are a link to the eternal”
from Photography, by London and Upton
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~Traditional Portraiture
~Environmental Portraiture
~Portraits using props/clothing
~Portraits that rely on gesture
~Portraits taken from the back
~Portraits with shadows and reflections
~Self-Portraits
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Traditional Portraiture
~ A straight forward approach to photographing a person with emphasis placed on the face of the subject.
~ The object is to capture a physical likeness of the subject, as close to reality as possible.
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Julia Margaret Cameron,Mrs. Herbert Duckworth, 1867
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Sandy Edwards, from the bookParadise is a Place,1997
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Bob GruenJohn Lennon, 1999
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Environmental Portraiture
~ A portrait of a person taken in front of background or setting which helps to relay something meaningful about that person.
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Arnold Newman,Piet Mondrian, 1942
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Bernd Lohse, Bookkeeper at the Minolta Company, Osaka, 1951
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Arthur Tress, Boy in a Fire-Bombed Store 1969
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Portraits using props/clothing
~Using an object or article of clothing that relates to your subject can help to convey something unique about that person.
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Danny Lyon,Spanky and Cowboy 1965
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Edward Steichen, Gloria Swanson, 1926
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Arnold Newman,Igor Stravinsky, 1946
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Portraits that rely on gesture
~By capturing your subject’s body language, i.e. a distinctive hand movement or facial expression, you can provide insight into the personality or profession of the individual you are photographing.
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Yosef Karsh, Martha Graham, 1948
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Roy DeCarava, Coltrane No.24, 1963
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Alfred Stieglitz,Georgia O’Keeffe, 1920?
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Georgia O’Keeffe,Calla Lilies, 1923
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Portraits from the back
~It is possible to create a meaningful rendering of a person without focusing on their face.
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Onesipe Aguado,Woman Seen From the Back,1862
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Imogen Cunningham,Jane and Alice and Imogen,1940
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Portraits with shadows or reflections
~Using the many different qualities of light and shadow can help to add another layer of interest and depth to a photograph.
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Lee Friedlander,New York City, 1960
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Imogen Cunningham,Roi Partridge, 1922
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Self-Portraits
~Alone with the camera, you can create an honest and revealing portrait of yourself.
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Ilse Bing, Self-Portrait with Mirrors,1957
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Ashley Knight-Greenfield,Self-Portrait, 2001
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Whitney Hart,Self-Portrait, 2001
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More Student Work
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Yume Kitasei,Portrait of her Twin, 2001
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Susannah Ludwig,Portrait of her Twin, 2001
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Ariana Constant,Portrait of her Sister, 2001
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Raffi Holznyc-Pimental,Portrait of his Brother, 2001
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Bibliography
Hirsch, Robert. Seizing The Light, A History of Photography. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2000.
London and Upton. Photography, Sixth Edition. New York: Addison-Wesley Educational Publishers,Inc., 1998.
Philippi, Simone, editor. 20th Century Photography Museum Ludwig Cologne. Cologne, Germany: Taschen, 1996.
Mears and Edwards. Paradise Is A Place. Sydney, Australia: Random House, 1997.
Friedman and Friend. From Yesterday To Today, The Beatles. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1996.
Time-Life Editors. Life Library of Photography, Photographing Children. New York: Time-Life Books, 1971.
Hambourg, Apraxine, Daniel, Rosenheim, and Heckert. The Waking Dream, Photography’s First Century. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1993.
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Bibliography
Greenough and Hamilton. Alfred Stieglitz, Photographs and Writings. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1983.
Arrowsmith and West, editors. Georgia O’Keeffe & Alfred Stieglitz, Two Lives. New York: HarperCollins Publishers/Callaway Editions, 1992.
Wolf, Sylvia. Julia Margaret Cameron’s Women. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1998.
Friedlander, Lee. Lee Friedlander Photographs. New York: Haywire Press, 1978.
Galassi, Peter. Roy De Carava, A Retrospective. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1996.
Lorenz, Richard. Imogen Cunningham Portraits. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1997