Portraiture

Application

  
Portraiture is the creation of a singe portrait where there is one person in the portrait at one time. It is an representation of  person. these portrsits usally tell a story bout the person and how they feel.


 
Portrait taken by Diane Arbus.Diane Arbus was a unique American photographer who took a vast amount of different portraits.She never took a "normal portrait", she always took pictures of dwarfs,transvestites,nudist and circus performers.In the end she ended up taking her own life.




Portrait taken by Walker Evans. Walker Evans was a very smart, and he took many unique portraits of the Great Depression. Many included portraits of poor familys.Most of his work today is pictured up in many popular museums.He too was American.

Portrait taken Richard Avendon.Richard was a American photograper. He defined the style and beauty of photography.





Portrait taken by Tony Vaccaro.Vaccaro was best known for taking European photos.Mainly in Germany after World War 2.Then after he finished taking many photo's of the War, where his portraits were very popular he starting taking photos for "fashion" in the U.S for magazines.
















Portrait taken by Larry Clark.


Lawrence Donald "Larry" Clark (born January 19, 1943) is an American film director, photographer, writer and film producer who is best known for the movie Kids and his photography book Tulsa. His most common subject is youth who casually engage in illegal drug use, underage sex and violence, and who are part of a specific subculture, such as surfing, punk rock or skateboarding.  (Wikipedia)


Context

We find portraits in many places these days. They have grown in popularity.It is now common to see portraits in houses to make them look brighter and they usally show there personallity.
You would also find portraits in gallerys, people visit these not only to enjoy the "fine art" but also to get an idea of what they would like in there home or what they would wish to paint theirselves.


Techniques
 Methods for creating portraits :

Creating Self-Portraits is a simple method that assists clients to examine themselves from different aspects.

Photo journalism

Application

There were many historic events that moved this style forward.One of these historic dates was 1925.This date was where a new camera was invented.The camera was called 'The Leica'.It is a compact quiet camera unlike the others made before this date.

Another one of these historic events was 1933 when Henri Cartier-Bresson took a brilliant photograph(the photo of the centuary).

 













Henri Cartier-Bresson was one of the most famous photographers around the 1939's and with his new camera " Leica"(Below). With his new camera he took many "in the moment" shots. You was known by many as a stalker/pouncer as he catches the moment and waits for things to happen.His most historic picture was in 1933 when he took the picture of a man jumping over a puddle.

Techniques

 
I believe photgraphy begun in 1925. This was when a new camera was introduced. It's name was the "Leica". This camera was the beginning of an new era.The camera was compact and quiet and all proffessional photgraphers wanted one.



   Picture of the camera "Leica"

Introduction / Media Photography

Hello I'm Tom,I hope to gain from this course a good understanding of photography and all the different skills to help me go further in my media career. Also a broad understanding of the world of media as a whole.




Robert CAPA - born on  (October 22, 1913 – May 25, 1954), was a Hungarian combat photographer.









Ansel Adams -(Ansel Easton Adams ,February 20, 1902 – April 22, 1984) was an American photographer and enviromentalist, best known for his black and white photographs of the American West, especially in Yosemite National Park. One of his most famous photographs was Moon and Half Dome, Yosemite National Park, California.











 Henri Cartier Bresson - (August 22, 1908 – August 3, 2004) was a French photographer.