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Photographic Portraiture - a short historical sketch
Wolfgang Hastert
2000 years ago• Sculptures, statues, paintings
Supporters of the portrait arts
• Churches, the pope, kings, Medici (Firence)• Tell the story of religion• Elite, upper class, commissioned works• Remember the deceased• Renaissance 15th century
Dramatic lighting
Mona Lisa 1503 – 1517 sfumato/ smoked soft painting
Rembrandt Light
Painting versus photo technique
David Hockney / camera lucida
Chiaroscuro lighting
Tenebrism light – violent contrast and spot light
Specular / contrast lighting
Julia Margaret Cameron 1815 -1879 pictorialist photography
Edward S Curtis 1889 – 1952
$ 75,000.00 in 1906
• Paid by JP Morgan for book series on Native Indians ( 500 images )
August Sander 1876 - 1964
Edward Weston 1886 - 1958
Walker Evans 1903 – 1975 documentary style portraits
Lighting styles derived from painting
• Sfumato soft
• Chiaroscuro hard light
• Tenebrism dramatic chiaroscuro/ spot light
The nature of portraits
• Portraits are always about the subject, their likenesses, their personalities, and their lives…
How about the influence of the photographer ???