This document provides brief summaries of the works and styles of various portrait photographers. It discusses Diane Arbus' controversial portraits that looked beyond surfaces, Margaret Bourke-White as a pioneer in photojournalism and women's work, and Richard Avedon's up close portraits that captured both his and his subjects' personalities. It also mentions Brassai, Sally Mann, Edward Curtis, Fazal Sheikh, Elliott Erwitt, Steve McCurry, Dorothea Lange, Lewis Hine, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Imogen Cunningham, George Hurrell, Andre Kertesz, William Klein, Peter Dench, Hazel Thompson, Alexander Rodchenko, Annie Leibovitz

1. Black & White Portraits
Celebrating Diversity

2. Diane Arbus
Her controversial portraiture looked beyond the superficial and
into her subjects often troubled souls. But her magazine work
show she could have a split personality.

3. Margaret Bourke-White
One of the original Life magazine staff photographers, Bourke-White was a pioneer in
both photojournalism and womens' work roles. Her images of World War II--especially
the liberation of concentration camps--were deceptively simple. Her images would
often be the perfect combination of fact and beauty.

4. Richard Avedon
His up close, show-every-hair-follicle approach to portraiture
can be jarring, but his ability to render both his and his sitters'
personalities in each image he creates is uncanny.

5. In the American
West

6. Brassai
His portraits and Paris street photos are touching and
perceptive.

7. Corinne Day

8. Sally Mann
http://www.aperture.org/shop/
books/immediate-family-2592
"Mann's subjects are her small
children (a boy, a girl, and a new
baby), often shot when they're
sick or hurt or just naked.
Nosebleeds, cuts, hives, chicken
pox, swollen eyes, vomiting—
the usual trials of childhood—
can be alarmingly beautiful,
thrillingly sensual moments in
Mann's portrait album. Her
ambivalence about motherhood
—her delight and despair—
pushes Mann to delve deeper
into the steaming mess of family
life than most of us are willing to
go. What she comes up with is
astonishing." —Vince Aletti, The
Village Voice

9. Sally Mann
"Immediate Family, which was published in 1990, must be counted as one of the great photograph books of our time. It
is a singularly powerful evocation of childhood from within and without..."

11. Edward Curtis
Curtis built an illustrious career documenting Native Americans
in the 1900s. The images resonate 100 years later.

12. Fazal Sheikh
• The portrait is central to Fazal Sheikh’s work. For more than two decades, as he has worked in
different communities around the world, the invitation to sit for a portrait has been the principal
means by which he has established a link with his subjects and been allowed to enter and
document their lives. Often these have been people in crisis: displaced from their homes and their
countries, at risk from violence, poverty and prejudice.

13. Elliott Erwitt
A perceptive street photographer with a sharp sense of humor, a sensitivity
to the human condition, and an affinity for dogs. It is almost impossible to be
depressed after looking at his work!

14. Steve McCurry

15. Dorothea Lange
Best known for her famous photos of the Depression, including Migrant Mother,
Nipomo, California, Lange was active from the 1920s to the early 1960s and was one
of the most influential photographers in American history.

16. Portraiture Photography was also used as a form of official
identification

17. Lewis Hine
By championing the cause of poor immigrants, child laborers and other downtrodden folks
through his powerfully straightforward photos, Lewis Hine showed us how the "Other Half" lived.
His passionate photographs enlightened the world and brought about legislation that has
protected millions since his work appeared in the early 20th century.

18. Henri Cartier-Bresson
The father of Photo Reportage and co-founder of the legendary Magnum photo agency, "HC-B"
has influenced generations of photojournalists, documentary photographers and street
photographers. Influenced and inspired by classical and impressionist art and freed by the
portability of the Leica, HC-B changed the way we look at the world around us.

19. Imogen Cunningham
Cunningham's carreer spanned the first three quarters of the 20th century
photographed many of her subjects draped in exotic clothes in images with moral
themes and tableaux representing works of poets. Later nudes were shocking for their
time, but rather tame now.

20. George Hurrell
During Hollywood's Golden Era, publicity photos had the power to make or break
stars. George Hurrell, who perfected the "glamour" portrait, was the most sought
after glamour photographer by the big names and the wanna-be's.

21. Andre Kertesz
Kertesz used the camera to transform the chaos of the street
into lyrical scenes. A brilliant, influential teacher and artist.

22. William Klein
His brief involvement with photography yielded an influential body of work that has been called
confrontational and immediate. They seem to be a furious protest against the establishment.
Uncompromising and bold, the images are mostly street photos that stare when others would
avert their gaze. He almost dares you to look at them.

23. Peter Dench

24. Hazel Thompson
http://www.hazelthompson.com

25. Alexander Rodchenko
• 'I want to take some quite incredible photographs that have never been
taken before… pictures which are simple and complex at the same time,
which will amaze and overwhelm people," wrote Alexander Rodchenko in his
diary on March 14, 1934. "I must achieve this so that photography can begin
to be considered a form of art."

26. Annie Leibovitz
One of today's most influential and admired artists, renowned for her vivid and distinctive style,
Annie Leibovitz is an American original and a master of self-promotion. Her portraits of Bruce
Springsteen, Jody Foster, Michael Jackson, Miles Davis, Greg Louganis, Mikhail Baryshnikov, John
Lennon and more combine a keen eye with a quick wit.

27. Don McCullin

28. Nicholas Nixon
His early work showed a remarkable mastery of large format photography in
situations where one would expect to see 35mm cameras; his portrait work includes a
series on four sisters taken over a 15-year period and images of people with AIDS.

29. Sebastiao Salgado
A photojournalist in the best sense of the word, Sebasiao Salgado is fascinated with people who
work hard in all parts of the world. From landless workers trying to claim property for themselves
in Brazil to Oil workers putting out fires in Kuwait, Salgado's lens captures the beauty in his
subjects' gritty reality.
Look at his work: Workers and Genesis (below)

30. Cindy Sherman
Sherman uses photography as a tool to manipulate images of women that
have been spawned by popular culture, with herself as the leading character
in most of the images she creates.

31. Julia Margaret Cameron

32. Jason Tilley
The Beautiful People Project – portraits taken across India over a 10 year
span

33. Edward Steichen
As the curator of the photo collection for the New York Museum of Modern Art, Steichen was the
man behind The Family Of Man, a late 1950's photo exhibition and recently-republished book
that was a watershed in the history of photography because it gave photography mass appeal as
an expressive, fine art. His curatorship brought about a grand era for "Concerned" photography.

34. Irving Penn – body of work:
Small Trades

35. His Studio

36. Raghu Rai
• Magnum Photographer from and based in
India.

37. Maurice Broomfield
• Broomfield was “one of the first industrial and architectural photographers to use his corporate commissions to
make visionary photographic studies of the workers and the environments in which they worked,” writes the Host
Gallery, which, last year, put on the first retrospective of the photographer’s iconic images of industrial Britain
from the 1950s to the 1970s.

38. Paul Strand
A white picket fence. A poor Adirondac family. Paul Strand's pure vision and
uncompromising technique gained him international accolades as a master of
American photography, especially in the 1950s. His black and white photos are
exquisite and memorable.

39. Weegee
A crime news photographer in the 30s and 40s in New York, Weegee is possibly the
most well known street photographer. Crude and direct, his photos have an
immediacy and impact that affect the viewer to this day. His later work, distorted
portraits that he called "photo charicatures", have a similar in-your-face quality.

40. Edward Weston
Weston's immaculately constructed images imbue forms of common objects with a sensuality
that transcends the subject. Sharp, detailed and rich in tonality, his closeups, nudes and nature
photographs brought the power of photography as an objective tool of observation to new
heights. You'll never look at a pepper quite the same way again.

41. Minor White
A teacher as well as a photographer, Minor White crafted works of beauty that were
also explorations of his inner self. His best known work was made of the natural
wonders in the American West. He experimented with alternative processes, non-
narrative sequences and techniques that would stretch the bounds of photography.

42. Photographic image by Bill Brandt

43. Nigel Parry
editorial images of Actors, featured in book: Sharp
http://www.nigelparryphoto.com/published-books/sharp

44. Nigel Parry

45. Nigel Parry

46. Rineke Djikstra

47. Photographer Jikta Hanzlova

48. Boronda