The document discusses different styles and techniques in portrait photography, including traditional portraits focusing on the subject's face, environmental portraits set in a meaningful background, portraits using props or clothing to convey something about the subject, portraits capturing distinctive gestures or body language, portraits taken from behind, portraits incorporating shadows or reflections, and self-portraits. It provides examples from historical photographers to illustrate each technique and concludes with student portraits.

1. Looking at Portrait Photography

2. “ Photographs are a link to the eternal ” from Photography , by London and Upton

3. 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

5. 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.

6. Julia Margaret Cameron, Mrs. Herbert Duckworth , 1867

7. Sandy Edwards, from the book Paradise is a Place , 1997

8. Bob Gruen, John Lennon

9. Environmental Portraiture - A portrait of a person taken in front of background or setting which helps to relay something meaningful about that person.

10. Arnold Newman, Piet Mondrian, 1942

11. Painting by Piet Mondrian

12. Bernd Lohse, Bookkeeper at the Minolta Company, Osaka, 1951

13. Arthur Tress, Boy in a Fire-Bombed Store 1969

14. 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.

15. Danny Lyon, Spanky and Cowboy 1965

16. Edward Steichen, Gloria Swanson, 1926

17. Arnold Newman, Igor Stravinsky , 1946

18. 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.

19. Yosef Karsh, Martha Graham , 1948

20. Roy DeCarava, Coltrane No.24 , 1963

21. Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O’Keeffe , 1920

22. Georgia O’Keeffe, Calla Lilies , 1923

23. Portraits from the back -It is possible to create a meaningful rendering of a person without focusing on their face.

24. Onesipe Aguado, Woman Seen From the Back, 1862

25. Imogen Cunningham, Jane and Alice and Imogen, 1940

26. 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.

27. Lee Friedlander, New York City , 1960

28. Imogen Cunningham, Roi Partridge, 1922

29. Self-Portraits -Alone with the camera, you can create an honest and revealing portrait of yourself.

30. Ilse Bing, Self-Portrait with Mirrors ,1957

31. Ashley Knight-Greenfield, Self-Portrait, 2001

32. Whitney Hart, Self-Portrait , 2001

33. More Student Work

34. Yume Kitasei, Portrait of her Twin , 2001

35. Susannah Ludwig, Portrait of her Twin , 2001

36. Ariana Constant, Portrait of her Sister , 2001

37. Raffi Holznyc-Pimental, Portrait of his Brother, 2001

38. The End

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