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

David Bailey

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?