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Portraiture
Sub-Genres
• Street• Documentary• Formal portrait • Intimate Portrait• Fashion• Art
Intimate Portraits
Exploration of the photographers’ immediate environment.
Definition:
Photographers:
• Julia Margaret Cameron
• Alfred Stieglitz
• Theodore Lux Feininger
• Dianne Arbus
• Arnold Newman
Julia Margaret Cameron
Whisper of the Muse / Portrait of G.F. Watts1865, Albumen print
Paul and Virginia1865, Albumen printJulia Margaret Cameron
The Rosebud Garden of Girls1868, Albumen silver printJulia Margaret Cameron
Alfred Steiglitz
Self-Portrait, 1907
Left and Right: Georgia O'Keeffe1918, Alfred Stieglitz
Georgia O'Keeffe1918, Alfred Stieglitz
Paul Strand1919, Alfred Stieglitz
William Eggleston
William EgglestonJackson, Mississippi
undated
Los Alamos2002, Dye transfer print
Morton, Mississippi1969-70
William Eggleston
Documentary Portraiture
Documenting information about a subject over a period of time, using the camera to record the world.
Definition:
Photographers:
Dorothea Lange
Robert Weingarten
Lewis Hine
Diane Arbus
Amish 62, Elkhart County, IN, 2002Robert Weingarten
Amish 34, Holmes County, OH, 2002Robert Weingarten
Dorothea Lange
FSA – Farm Security Administration
Documented rural poor in America
Jobless on Edge of Pea FieldImperial Valley, California
1937
J.R. Butler,President of the Southern Tenant Farmer's UnionMemphis, Tennessee1938 Dorothea Lange
Formal Portraiture
• Portraits taken in a controlled environment (studio, lighting etc), sometimes can be ID images
Photographers:
Annie Leibovitz
David Bailey
Cecil Beaton
Definition:
Cecil Beaton
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Annie Leibovitz
Fashion
• Images that are intended to sell a product
Photographers:
Mario Testino
Irving Penn
Definition:
Irving Penn
• Arnold Newman • Irving Penn• Cindy Sherman• ‘The Portrait Unbound,’ photos by Robert
Weingarten
• Issues of identity are key within portraiture• Early portraits are clearly linked via art conventions to painting• Social/cultural identity V true identity?
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