What is a Portrait? TUES 15 OCT

Make images every day.

What is it?
Where do we find them?
It is a portrait because there is a person or group of people in the picture. It is a representation of someone.
  • Portraiture depicts a person.
  • It can capture the essence of a person. Their personality.
  • Publications, newspapers and magazines, books and advertising/promotional demonstrations.
Generating interest and revenue by promotion of the show and in turn promoting the magazine. As part of marketing campaign, companies and brands.
Photographic History – Slow and very expensive.
“Rembrandt perfected” – Samuel Morse
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All portraits are acting as records/documents. A photograph is its own medium. The relevance to art as it may be considered to be.
Viewer, Subject, Photographer.
Awareness – Start to forget the camera is there in the conversation. Keep the subject.
Anthony Luvera – Residency (Empowering to make their own image by showing them how to use the large format camera, their own representation of themselves.)
Subject is consciously/unconsciously trying to be natural or not. Aware of it.
‘Someone saying ‘cheese’ when having a portrait made, acknowledges unconsciously…’
Stephen Shore
A portion of our lives is captured in a portrait. A smile becomes utilitarian. The smile changes the connotation of the image.
Makes something so large, the scale, seem small and personal.
‘Portraits that have power and meaning for me are ones that are honest and without artifice.’
Photographers to look further into.
  • Myoung Ho Lee – Trees (portraits)
Myoung Ho Lee - 'Trees'

Myoung Ho Lee – ‘Trees’

Myoung Ho Lee - 'Trees'

Myoung Ho Lee – ‘Trees’

Myoung Ho Lee - 'Trees'

Myoung Ho Lee – ‘Trees’

Myoung Ho Lee - 'Trees'

Myoung Ho Lee – ‘Trees’

Critical Reflection

From this lecture I gained knowledge on Myoung Ho Lee’s project ‘Trees’ this encouraged me to look more into what the differences are comparing a portrait to a landscape other than just the orientation of an image. The ‘Trees’ project showed portraits of trees within it’s landscape and how it’s interesting because of it’s originality, I have never seen a tree captured as a portrait, a singular object before. This had helped me with my assignment two because it had helped me by experimenting with the different orientations of an image. I originally was going to keep it simple and not crop anything out as the images from the 35mm was dominantly landscape. However realising the cropping changed the way an image is interpreted I had chosen to crop my images from landscape to portrait to show a continuous flow from one image to another.

 

Category : 150MC - Developing and Understanding Photographic Practice - 1314AAA
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