A2 P O R T R A I T
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The document discusses portraiture in photography and compares it to portraiture in painting. It provides quotes about revealing the essence or truth of the subject from photographers Edward Weston and Minor White. The document lists various portrait photographers such as Richard Avedon, Diane Arbus, and August Sander. It also lists portrait artists such as Rembrandt, Velazquez, and Frida Kahlo. Specific photographers and artworks are discussed, such as Richard Billingham's unflinching family portraits, Rineke Dijkstra's adolescent subjects, and Claude Cahun's self-portraits. The influence of painting on photography and vice versa is a topic of comparison.
A2 P O R T R A I T
- 2. QUESTIONSHow have photographers attempted to reveal more about the sitter for a portrait than merely their appearance? Compare and Contrast how the portrait has changed throughout the history of photography.Compare and contrast how the development of photographic portraiture has been influenced by Painting and vice versa.To reveal the individual before his camera, to transfer the living quality of that individual to his finished print...Not to make road maps but to record the essential truth of the subject; not to show how this person looks, but to show what he is. - Edward Weston - Edward Weston's definition of the role of the portrait photographer. ("The Portrait in Photography", Reaktion Books, London 1992, Mick Gidley, p136 – 137). Discuss portraits by a number of photographers that seem to articulate Weston’s vision for portraiture and compare them with those that fall short. Creativity with portraits involves the invocation of a state of rapport when only a camera stands between two people...mutual vulnerability and mutual trust. - Minor White,(Mirrors, messages, manifestations by Minor White)
- 3. Portrait PhotographersSam Taylor WoodClaude CahunFlorence HenriJulia Margaret CameronDisderiCecil BeatonJane BownNadarRichard AvedonIrving PennIda BarrRankinNicholas NixonDiane ArbusAugust Sander
- 4. Portrait ArtistsHans HolbeinJan Van EyckMaggiHamblingThomas GainsboroughDiego VelasquezRembrandtVermeerLucien FreudFrancis BaconFerdinand HodlerIngresFrancois BoucherJoshua ReynoldsFrida KahloVan GoghJohn Singer SargentEdgar DegasEdouard VuillardPaul Bonnard
- 5. Linked to Pre-Raphaelite aestheticJulia Margaret Cameron
- 6. Photographs his family unflinchingly.Provides and alternative to the sanitized and heavily edited family albums we are more used to seeing.As he wanted to use these images to make paintings from he makes strong references to the paintings of Vuillard, Bonnard and the Impressionists. Richard Billingham
- 7. RINEKE DIJKSTRAAwkward adolescent subject isolated from context.In transitionSimilar toDiane Arbus?
- 8. HELLEN VAN MEENEUntitled 2000Awkward pose noticed not constructedContrast between clothing, make-up and body stage.
- 9. Job Hunt 1976After three weeks he still couldn’t find a job.His mother said to him, ‘maybe you’re not good enough’.Tracey MoffattScarred for Life series 1994
- 10. Hannah Starkey
- 11. Samuel Beckett by Jane Bown, 1976
- 14. Sam Taylor WoodSelf Portrait in double-breasted suit with hare
- 15. Richard AvedonAmerican West series
- 19. Victorian Family PortraitDisderi or Nadar?
- 20. Jan Van EyckArnolfini Marriage 1434
- 21. Thomas Gainsborough Mr and Mrs Andrews 1750
- 22. Edouard Vuillard
- 25. Claude Cahun
- 26. Claude Cahun (Lucy Schwab) self portrait 1927Sarah Lucas Self Portrait, 1999
- 27. Irving PennMarlen Dietrich 1948