This document discusses different categories and subcategories of portraiture including intimate portraits, formal portraits, documentary photography, and fine art. It provides definitions and examples of photographers for each category. Intimate portraits explore one's immediate environment, exemplified by Alfred Stieglitz, Theodore Lux Feininger, Dianne Arbus, and Arnold Newman. Formal portraits are staged in a studio or on location, with examples given of Annie Leibovitz, Norman Parkinson, and Cecil Beaton. The document also discusses documentary photography which documents information about a subject over time, giving Dorothea Lange, Eve Arnold, Robert Weingarten as examples. Finally, it discusses fine art photography which manipulates the photographic medium

1. Portraiture

2. Sub-Categories
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Street
Documentary
Formal portrait
Intimate Portrait
Fashion
Art

3. Intimate Portraits
Definition:
Exploration of the photographers’ immediate environment.
Photographers:
Alfred Stieglitz
Theodore Lux Feininger
Dianne Arbus
Arnold Newman
William Eggleston

4. Alfred Steiglitz
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Pioneer of Pictorialism
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Formed the Photo-secession – used a
number of elaborate techniques
manipulating images
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291 gallery
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Aimed to use photography as a creative
medium
Self-Portrait, 1907

5. Left and Right: Georgia O'Keeffe
1918, Alfred Stieglitz

6. Georgia O'Keeffe
Paul Strand
1918, Alfred Stieglitz
1919, Alfred Stieglitz

7. William Eggleston 1939 • Captures image first time – no editing
• Henri-Cartier Bresson – the decisive moment
• Recognised as using colour photography as an
art form

8. William Eggleston
Jackson, Mississippi
undated

9. Los Alamos
2002, Dye transfer print
William Eggleston
Morton, Mississippi
1969-70

11. Formal Portrait
Definition:
A staged photograph in a studio or on location.
Photographers:
Annie Leibovitz
Norman Parkinson
Cecil Beaton

12. Nicole Kidman
Annie Leibovitz

13. John Lennon and Yoko Ono
Annie Leibovitz

14. Audrey Hepburn, Vogue 1955
Norman Parkinson
Legroux Soeurs Hat, Vogue 1952
Norman Parkinson

15. Whoopi Goldberg
Annie Leibovitz

16. Fine Art
Definition:
Manipulation of photographic medium to
create a work of artistic value
Photographers:
Julia Margaret Cameron
Chris Bucklow
Cindy Sherman
Edward Weston
Edward Weston

17. Julia Margaret Cameron
"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.“
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. Watts
1865, Albumen print

18. The Rosebud Garden of Girls
Paul and Virginia
1865, Albumen print
Julia Margaret Cameron
1868, Albumen silver print
Julia Margaret Cameron

19. Chris Bucklow, 1959

20. Anima 7
Chris Bucklow

21. Documentary
Definition:
Documenting information about a subject over a period of time, using the camera
to record the world.
Photographers:
Dorothea Lange
Eve Arnold
Robert Weingarten
Magazines
Lewis Hine
Life
Diane Arbus
Picture Post
Martin Parr
National Geographic

22. Amish 62, Elkhart County, IN, 2002
Robert Weingarten

23. Amish 34, Holmes County, OH, 2002
Robert Weingarten

24. 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

25. J.R. Butler,
Jobless on Edge of Pea Field
President of the Southern Tenant Farmer's Union
Memphis, Tennessee
1938
Dorothea Lange
Imperial Valley, California
1937

26. 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