Portraits
Part I: Historical Foundations and a Definition what is a portrait ? what comes to your mind when you think to ‘portraits’ ?
A portrait is … “a painting, drawing, photograph, or engraving of a person, especially one depicting only the face or head and shoulders.” (Source: Oxford English Dictionary.) group portraits, portraits of couples , families , self-portraits… There are other forms of portraits …
A few historical examples of portraits: 1515
1806
Part II: Abstraction and the Portrait Compare
Part III: Photography and the Portrait Walker Evans Tenant Farmer’s Wife, Alabama, 1936 Matthew Zimmerman , Marilyn Monroe, 1954 Dorothea Lange , Migrant Mother,1936 VJ Day in Times Square, 1945, alfred Eisenstaedt