portrait
A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face is always predominant. In arts, a portrait may be represented as half body and even full body. If the subject in full body better represents personality and mood, this type of presentation may be chosen. The intent is to display the likeness, personality, and even the mood of the person. For this reason, in photography a portrait is generally not a snapshot, but a composed image of a person in a still position.
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This is a collage portrait as part of my photography project “I See You”. An image is a cross-roads encounter between identity and history. It makes moments unique, whatever or whoever the subject. It is very simply my visual essay about what I see, at the cross-roads of my life. Would…
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The unrecognised genius of the world of photography Jacques-Henri Lartigue (1894–1986) was in the shadow of his popular colleagues. He formed an artistic style that combined the aesthetics of an intimate, unexpectedly captured moment, especially characteristic of female portraits. His muses were the most beautiful women, including the photographer’s three…
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Gertrude Stanton Käsebier (1852–1934): The Most Influential Female Photographer of the 20th Century. Gertrude took up photography in middle age and was soon praised by the renowned promoter Alfred Stieglitz as “beyond dispute the leading portrait photographer in this country.” Gertrude Käsebier left her husband when she was already 37 years old.…
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Drink where horse drinks. Horse will never drink stale water.
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