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Warm Up: Portrait Photography
2 Photos
1.Individual Photo (1 person)2.Group Photo (2 or more)
Take photos in style of Richard Avedon
• 1923-2004
• Started out as fashion photographer
• Worked for NY magazines such as Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, The New Yorker
Strong black-and-white contrast creates an effect of sophistication.
Truman Capote, 1974Marian Anderson, contralto,
New York City, June 30, 1955
The portraits are often well lit and in front of white backdrops, with no props or extraneous details to distract from their person.
Ezra Pound, Poet, 1958
FOCUS is on the face, gaze, dress, and gesture.
SIMPLICITY!
Samuel Beckett
He began to take the type of reality photographs that most photographers [especially fashion photographers] of that time would never have taken.
Anti-fashion Movement.
Wallis, Duchess of Windsor; Edward, Duke of Windsor (King
Edward VIII), 1957
Dwight David Eisenhower, President of the United
States, 1964
When printed, the images regularly contain the dark outline of the film in which the image was framed.
Marilyn Monroe, actress , New York City, May 6, 1957
Created a sense of drama by often using a stark, white background and eliciting a frontal, confrontational pose
DRAMA!
George Bush, Director, CIA, Langley, Virginia, March 2, 1976
Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, Washington D.C., May 7, 1976
Andy Warhol, artist , New York City, August 20, 1969
Edward Albee, Playwright
Michael Moore, Political Satirist
“In the American West,” 1979-1984
• Portraits of miners, oil field workers in their soiled work clothes, unemployed drifters, teenagers
Sandra Bennett, twelve year old Rocky Ford, Colorado, 1980 Emma Lee Wellington, housewife
North Las Vegas, Nevada, 1980
In front of his camera, emotions are NOT obvious.
Ruby Mercer, publicist, Frontier Days, Cheyenne,
Wyoming, 1982
Blue Cloud Wright, slaughterhouse worker, Omaha, Nebraska, 1979
Preferring to avoid the "pretty" and bring out the stark underlying "reality" of the subject.
Roberto Lopez, oil field worker, Lyons, Texas, September 28, 1980
Boyd Fortin, Thirteen Year Old Rattlesnake Skinner,
Sweetwater, TX, 1979
Ronald Fischer, beekeeper , Davis, California, May 9, 1981
Jan Patricio Lobato, carney Rocky Ford, Colorado, 1980
Group Photos
Richard Avedon’s
Senior Lennard Nerona’s
Ap Art Student
YOUR WARM UP:
Classic Portraits in the style of Richard Avedon.
-Simple backgrounds-Focus on lack of emtions…capture the rawness of the person.-Black and White
Two Photos:
1.Individual Photo of 1 person2.Group Photo of 2 or more people.