- People are most popular subjects
- self portraits- way to explore who we are to ourselves and to other people, and who we want to be
- reveal truth about ourselves or other people
- can also be fictional stories-photo fiction
- Photography replaced painting as primary medium of portraits
- nearly everyone could afford photos
- Gaspard-Felix Tournachon (1820-1910)- 1st great portrait photography, started photographing in France in 1853; known as "Nadar"; produced "speaking likeness"portraits that revealed his subjects' personalities
- August Sander (Germany, 1876-1964), created some of 1st environment portraits- showing the setting of his subjects' lives and work
Thinking Artistically
- value- range of light and dark areas in a photo
- keep in mind location of light and dark areas
- can provide sense of depth in an image
- values can also bring emotional content to a photograph
- shapes can be organic, w/flowing curves and irregular outlines, or can be geometric
- presenting your subjects as the dominant shape you can emphasize him or her
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