Portraits

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Portraits
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• Portrait - A photograph that represents a
  specific person, a group of people, or an animal.
• usually shows what a person looks like as well as
  revealing something about the subject's
  personality.

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Formal Portrait

• A portrait that emphasizes only the subject and
  de-emphasizes the setting.
• Close - up

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Formal

• Neutral background
• In a studio background cloth, seamless paper, a
  plain wall

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Formal

• Outdoors in front of a hedge, sky, the ocean,
  or a solid color wall

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• Nadar Gaspard-Felix Tournachon
• 1820-1910
• French caricaturist photographer
• 1st great portrait photographer
• Created a rapport with his subjects and produced
  a speaking likeness portrait

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• Speaking likeness a portrait that revealed the
  subjects personality
• How can you create a rapport with the subject you
  are shooting?

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• Write a script you could use to work with a
  subject who is nervous about having his or her
  photograph taken.
• 1 page

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Environmental Portraits

• a portrait executed in the subject's usual
  environment, such as in their home or workplace,
  and typically illuminates the subject's life and
  surroundings.

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• to better illuminate their character, and
  therefore portray the essence of their
  personality, rather than merely a likeness of
  their physical features.
• the subject will be more at ease, and so be more
  conducive to expressing themselves, as opposed to
  in a studio,

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August Sander

• German portrait and documentary photographer
• 1876-1964
• Created some of the 1st environmental portraits

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• August Sanders documented German people with
  portraits of them in their professions.
• How would you document Americans?
• Would it be by photographing people at work? At
  play?

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What are the differences and similarities of the
two images ?
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Julia Margaret Cameron

• Julia Margaret Cameron (1815 1879) British
  photographer
• Victorian period
• Self-taught
• Best known for her portraits sometimes she
  dressed her subjects up to act out scenes from
  literature and classical mythology.
• Most her images were meant to resemble the
  dreamlike and softly romantic paintings of the
  artists or her time.

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Fantasy Portraits

• Beatrice 1866

• Zoe-Maid of Athens 1866-70

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• Lancelot and Guinevere 1873

• The Passing of Arthur

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The Passing of Arthur, 1874
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Candid Portraits

• An unopposed portrait of a person going about his
  or her daily life.
• Not posed
• Try to go unnoticed
• Include subjects surroundings
• Capture different emotions
• Use a faster shutter speed (1/250 sec.)

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Walker Evans Subway Passengers, New York, 1938
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Portrait Project

• Create portraits that tells a story or relays
  information about the way your subject looks, who
  they are, or what they think they are. The
  subject will be the dominant element in the
  pictures.

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Portrait Project

• Create 4 portraits
• 1. Formal Studio, posed
• 2. Environmental outside or inside
  (posed/unposed)
• 3. fictional 1 studio, posed
• -use a costume become a character from your
  imagination or someone you aspire to be
• 4. Candid capture a spontaneous, slice-of-life
  photograph of someone engaged in everyday
  activity.
• Subject is in focus, and not posed

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Self-Portrait

• Julia Margaret Cameron
• Cindy Sherman

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• Self-Portrait A portrait of a photographer
  taken by him- or her-self.

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Movie Still

• a photograph taken on or off the set of a movie
  or television program during production.
• main purpose - to help studios advertise and
  promote their new films and stars

• Movie still Dear John

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Cindy Sherman

• Cindy Sherman (1954-present) American
  photographer
• made a career out of self-portraits which
  examines the role of women , and how women are
  perceived through the eyes of men and through the
  lenses of various media.
• Her style references her influences of movies,
  tv, popular culture, fairy tales, female
  stereotypes and art history

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Cindy Sherman, Untitled Film Still, no. 92,
1981gt
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• Untitled ? 153 (head of the drowned

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Untitled 96, 1981, Farbfoto, Auflage 10, 61 x
121,9 cm
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• Reflective Self-Portrait a self-portrait taken
  from looking into a reflective object, such as a
  mirror or the chrome of a car.

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Self-Portrait Project

• Create photographs of yourself that tells a story
  or relays information about the way you look,
  what you think, or who you are. The subject, you
  , will be the dominant element in the pictures.
• Create 2 self-portraits
• 1. Movie Still pretend you are a
  actor/actress in a movie (genre is your choice)
  Due11/28
• 2. Reflective photograph yourself by looking
  into a reflective surface (mirror, window). Be
  creative! Due 11/21