photographers for portraiture
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Photographers:Portraiture
Irving Penn
Corner portraits: created an environment to see how subjects reacted.
Julia Margaret Cameron Closely cropped portraits have influenced contemporary photographers
Started photography at 48. unconventional in their intimacy and visual outcome of created blur.This was achieved through both long exposures, where the subject moved and by leaving the lens intentionally out of focus.
Richard Avedon
there is barely a trace of the theatrical expressiveness or theextravagant gestures that avedon elicits from the actors,singers or writers who sit for him. these portraits areexpressive nevertheless. their hard physical labour, theharshness of their everyday lives, their struggle for survival,has etched their features and their souls as a river gougesout a canyon. their faces become landscapes, and their bodiesterritories, on which they carry their garments around with them.
Truman Capote
Earned his reputation as a fashion photographer, his greatest achievement has been his reinvention of the genre of photographic portraiture.
his ability to express the essence of his subject using little else in the frame.
avedon’s pictures continue to bring us a closer, more intimate view of the great and the famous.
the portraits are often well lit and in front of white backdrops, with no props or extraneous details to distract from their person - from the essential specificity of face, gaze, dress, and gesture. when printed, the images regularly containthe dark outline of the film in which the image was framed.
Lee Friedlander
Butcher
Lee Friedlander
Started documenting Gay and transsexual communities in NYCIn 1990s began to document AIDS epidemic as she lost many of her close friendsContinues to document marginalised groups within society.
Nan Goldin
Uses herself and her circumstances as subject matter
David Bailey
Sian Bonnell
Cindy Sherman manipulates her own body by means of make-up, clothes and artificial body parts, and stages herself as various figures that she invents or re-invents, after which she photographs herself in her studio.
Richard Billingham
the door to family life, usually closed, was kicked wide open.
Arnulf Rainer
Barry Lewis
Bettina von Zwehl
Bill Brandt
Brassai
David LaChapelle
Duane Michals
Don McCullin
Elliot Erwitt
Erwin Blumenfeld
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