The Process, Practice, or Art of Representing a Person

1. P o r t r a i t u r e • The Process, Practice, or Art of Representing a Person • To Dramatically Describe or Depict a Person • From Latin Origins - To Draw Forth

2. Portraiture: Visual Representation... of individual personalities distinguished by references to character. Identification with the sitter by the viewer is of primary importance. Exact replication is not the goal. A photo I.D. does not communicate personality. Ellen Terry at 16 Julia Margaret Cameron 1864

3. George Harrison Richard Avedon 1967 You may intentionally alter the appearance of the subject to emphasize particular qualities -physical, psychological, or social. The most difficult task for the portrait photographer is to capture the non-visual quality of the subject.

4. Tenneson selects models according to an Inner Beauty and radiance. Polina , Russia Joyce Tenneson 2000

5. Mrs.. Stewart Irving Penn 1948 Portraits can include only the head of the subject, or they can depict the shoulders and head, the upper torso, or an entire figure shown either seated or standing. Robert Flaherty Henri Cartier-Bresson 1935

6. Portraits can show individuals either self-consciously posing in ways that convey a sense of timelessness or captured in the midst of work or daily activity. 2000 Jessica, United States Joyce Tenneson 2000 Son of a Miner Arthur Rothstein FSA 1939

7. Frank Zappa Richard Avedon Conde Nast Gledhill 1924 During some historical periods, portraits were severe and emphasized authority, and during other periods artists worked to communicate spontaneity and the sensation of life.

8. Louise NevelsonRichard Avedon 1975 Albert Estein Philippe Halsman 1947 A good portrait photographer can consider themselves likened to a good psychologist: one who enjoys privileged insights, builds trust and can assist the subject in a process that may reveal the true self.

9. On Psychological Portraiture: “It can't be done by pushing the person into position or arranging his head at a certain angle. It must be accomplished by provoking the victim, amusing him with jokes, lulling him with silence, or asking impertinent questions which his best friend would be afraid to voice.” -Philippe Halsman Salvador Dali Philippe Halsman 1953 Marilyn Monroe Philippe Halsman 1952

10. Jackie Joyner-Kersee Point Dume,1987 Herb Ritts Madonna Hollywood, 1986Herb Ritts From earliest times, portraits have been seen as a link to Immortality Darati, ProfileAfrica, 1993 Herb Ritts

11. C putting on her makeup Bangkok, 1992Nan Goldin Portraits can help to preserve, record, and pay reverence to particular cultures and traditions. Girl and Jar - from the portfolio “The North American Indian” Edward S. Curtis, 1905Smithsonian American Art Museum

12. Photographers like Karsh created modern icons with dramatic, theatrical lighting techniques. Georgia O’Keeffe 1956 Winston Churchill 1941 In 1931, Yousuf Karsh joined the theater, and the spectacle of stage lighting dramatically changed his approach to photography. "Moods could be created, selected, modified, intensified. I was thrilled by this means of expression . . . a new world was opened to me." . "There I set my heart on photographing those men and women who leave their mark on the world."

13. Photographer as Subject Self portrait as if I were dead Photographers often turn the camera on themselves “How could it be that one day I will say goodbye to all of this and miss the lilac spring, the May times whistling on the wing, and the robin's kiss? In the summertime, when days and evenings are in rhyme, you will not find me in the grove among the lilies in repose or weeding in the garden path where scented seedlings hold on fast. When autumn falls I'll cast no shadow on the wall or hear the owl's haunted hoot high above the rotting root. When all is orange russet red I will not be with you in bed.The day the silent snow descends and lolls to sleep all living friends, I too will slumber in the earth among the seeds and squirrel's birth. Who will miss me? Who will care? When I am called and no one's there?” - Duane Michals Edward Steichen 1901 Self Portrait Gum Bichromate Print Goldin, Nan born 1953 Self-Portrait on the train, Germany1992

14. Untitled Film Still #21. 1978.Collection The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Untitled Film Still #35. 1979.Collection The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Untitled Film Still #7. 1978.Collection The Museum of Modern Art, New York. These photographs by Cindy Sherman are self portraits. Sherman becomes the heroine or protagonist and portrays cliché representations of ...“fictional femininity” We feel as if we know them. Untitled Film Still #11. 1978.Collection The Museum of Modern Art, New York

15. Claes Oldenburg Magritte Who am I? A Story about a Story "Photographers are always photographing the package," he says. "But they would never think to open up the box. Well, I'm interested in the contents, because once you start opening up the box, it's like a Chinese box, there's always another box inside... so it's limitless." -Duane Michals

16. Portraiture Assignment: 1. A Portrait of a chosen person 2. A Self Portrait 3. A photographic illustration... a portrayal of a person in a legend, poem, masterpiece, song, or a story that needs telling...