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.

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

Close - up

Neutral background

In a studio – background cloth, seamless paper, a plain wall

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

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

Sarah Bernhardt, 1859

Speaking likeness – a portrait that revealed the subject’s personality

How can you create a rapport with the subject you are shooting?

Caption Victor Hugo

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

1 page

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.

Painter (Anton Raderscheidt), 1926 (c) August Sander

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,

Peasant Woman

German portrait and documentary photographer

1876-1964 Created some of

the 1st environmental portraits

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?

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.

Beatrice 1866 Zoe-Maid of Athens 1866-70

Lancelot and Guinevere 1873

The Passing of Arthur

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.)

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.

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

Julia Margaret CameronCindy Sherman

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

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

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

Untitled № 153 (head of the drowned

Reflective Self-Portrait – a self-portrait taken from looking into a reflective object, such as a mirror or the chrome of a car.

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) – Due11/282. Reflective – photograph yourself by looking into a reflective surface (mirror, window). Be creative! Due 11/21