A take on Portraiture

                    

When looking over examples of Portraiture, the first pictures that stuck out to me were by Lee Friedlander. Like in the photographs above, I was surprised by the nonchalantness of the photos. The first looking like he just woke up and decided, “hey, today im going to take a photo… Okay done” and its just funny cause I do that with snapchat. The second photo of him staring at a lightbulb is trippy because IM SURE after that photo he was seeing stars but did it anyway for the photo which is cool and that weird angle and choice to include the lightbulb compelled me to include this photograph into the post.

 

His photos are available for viewing at the following link (NSFW):
https://www.moma.org/collection/works?locale=en&utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=Lee+friedlander&classifications=any&date_begin=Pre-1850&date_end=2018&with_images=1&page=2&direction=fwd

and (SFW)

Self-Portraits

 

 

The second photographer I looked at was Vivian Maier. She a nanny in the 40s and took photographs as a hobby photographer which I would have never known if I didnt research her a bit. She was apparently an unkown photographer and didnt get published til 2007! A lot of her work is beautiful like the photograph above. The reflection causing an infinite amounts of her was what I liked about this photograph specifically and I guess like me and unlike me, her hobby was a big passion of hers.

 

Source:

http://www.berkshireeagle.com/stories/photographer-nanny-was-no-accidental-artist,520662

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