As portraiture

Portraiture

Sub-Categories

• Street• Documentary• Formal portrait • Intimate Portrait• Fashion• Art

Intimate Portraits

Exploration of the photographers’ immediate environment.

Definition:

Photographers:

Alfred Stieglitz

Theodore Lux Feininger

Dianne Arbus

Arnold Newman

William Eggleston

Alfred Steiglitz• Pioneer of Pictorialism

• Formed the Photo-secession – used a number of elaborate techniques manipulating images

• 291 gallery

• Aimed to use photography as a creative medium

Self-Portrait, 1907

Left and Right: Georgia O'Keeffe1918, Alfred Stieglitz

Georgia O'Keeffe1918, Alfred Stieglitz

Paul Strand1919, Alfred Stieglitz

William Eggleston 1939 -

• Captures image first time – no editing

• Henri-Cartier Bresson – the decisive moment

• Recognised as using colour photography as an art form

William EgglestonJackson, Mississippi

undated

Los Alamos2002, Dye transfer print

Morton, Mississippi1969-70

William Eggleston

Formal Portrait

A staged photograph in a studio or on location.

Photographers:

Annie Leibovitz

Norman Parkinson

Cecil Beaton

Definition:

Nicole KidmanAnnie Leibovitz

John Lennon and Yoko OnoAnnie Leibovitz

Audrey Hepburn, Vogue 1955Norman Parkinson

Legroux Soeurs Hat, Vogue 1952Norman Parkinson

Whoopi GoldbergAnnie Leibovitz

Fine Art

Manipulation of photographic medium to create a work of artistic value

Photographers:Julia Margaret Cameron

Chris Bucklow

Cindy Sherman

Edward Weston

Definition:

Edward Weston

Julia Margaret Cameron

Photographed high profile people of the time – Alfred Lord Tennyson, Sir John Herschel

Inspired by literature – Ruskin and the Pre-Raphaelite Movement

Subject matter from paintings of Raphael, Giotto and Michelangelo

Whisper of the Muse / Portrait of G.F. Watts1865, Albumen print

"My aspirations are to ennoble Photography

and to secure for it the character and uses of

High Art by combining the real and Ideal

and sacrificing nothing of the Truth by all

possible devotion to Poetry and beauty.“

Paul and Virginia1865, Albumen printJulia Margaret Cameron

The Rosebud Garden of Girls1868, Albumen silver printJulia Margaret Cameron

Chris Bucklow, 1959

Anima 7Chris Bucklow

Documentary

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

Martin Parr

Eve Arnold

Magazines

Life

Picture Post

National Geographic

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

Great depression in 1930s

Debate about whether this image is a true representation of the mother.

Migrant Mother

Jobless on Edge of Pea FieldImperial Valley, California

1937

J.R. Butler,President of the Southern Tenant Farmer's UnionMemphis, Tennessee1938 Dorothea Lange

Activity

In pairs, research one category and analyse two images by each of the photographers listed below. Towards the end of the se ssion we will discuss your research.

• Portraiture – Dianne Arbus, Arnold Newman• Fine Art - Cindy Sherman, Kate Isherwood• Documentary – Eve Arnold, Lewis Hine