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Portraiture

Portraiture . What is it?. “The portrait is a sign whose purpose is both the description of an individual and the inscription of social identity” John Tagg 1988 What does this mean ?. Robert Mapplethorpe Apollo Apollo is an ideal type who represents perfection

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Portraiture

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  1. Portraiture What is it?

  2. “The portrait is a sign whose purpose is both the description of an individual and the inscription of social identity” John Tagg 1988 • What does this mean?

  3. Robert Mapplethorpe Apollo Apollo is an ideal type who represents perfection Does this image refer to an ideal or an individual? Portraiture then has two opposing yet Interlinked sides: Showing the subjects true identity and relating that identity to the world

  4. Silhouette and physionotrance started to become popular and started to anchor the codes and conventions of portraiture from art

  5. Portraiture Photography was also used as a form of identification

  6. Early 19th C portraiture was equated to paintings and their codes and conventions. Paintings of individuals (and photos) showed wealth and status

  7. The Daguerreotype became popular and affordable (still middle class) • Studios sprang up • Up to 40 seconds exposure still – helps to confirm C&C

  8. Other photographers begin to break painterly tradition and use photography to show different social types and personalities. People begin to remain in their social contextsIs this ‘environmental portraiture’ now starting to become documentary? Hill and Adamson

  9. Edward Steichen’s self portraits ironically address this central question

  10. Bill Brandt’s portraits of famous people

  11. Man Ray: Surrealist – questions of self and identity

  12. The paradox of portraiture is the true re-presentation of the subject via the lens versus how the images fits into social conventions and uses codes of photography and art to tell a story • i.e. Can an image of me, every really show the true me?!

  13. Paul Strand • Blind Woman 1916 • Documentary or portraiture? • Defines a personal history within the context of other reference points

  14. August Sander • The individual referred to in a social context • Subjects as social beings • Defined by profession (environmental) • True identity though?

  15. Robert Mapplethorpe • Address’s problem of identity • Explores portraiture in relation to its assumed audience • Rejects C&C

  16. Cindy Sherman • Explores identity in terms of how modern identity is made via media images • The Self is a point of ID

  17. Dianne Arbus • Individuals in a private context • Questions what is the norm

  18. Martin Schoeller

  19. We see continued reference from photographers as they attempt to make sense of the ambiguous condition of identity

  20. Task • Using your class notes and one of the images provided you must write a brief analysis. Your analysis must discuss some of the key issues mentioned and not simply a textual analysis of the picture. • Use the internet to try and find a reference or source • You can work in small groups to begin with but must write separately.

  21. Final Task • Tweet to the college account your definition of portraiture

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