My name is Liam Taylor I like to play basketball and I do photography for gcse because I wanted to try it out and enjoy myself and learn new things.I wanna know how to take better pictures .
What is a portrait
portraits are artistic representation of people also they can be created in any media from tradition oil paintings to photographs and sculpture. People in general are often enjoy exploring their identity and photography is a great tool to do so. Self-portraiture is one of the most popular genres of photography in history and today. Do self portraits have to be in focus? Do self portraits have to have a true likeness of the photographer? Many photographers have chosen to depict self in a variety of interesting and innovative ways.
Nico Fröhlich workshop
These are my five favourite
TYLER Mitchell
Who is he? What does he do - What is his work about?
Tyler Mitchell was born on the 12 April 1995 in Atlanta, Georgia, he is an American photographer He is based in Brooklyn, New York, and is best known for his cover photo of Beyoncé for the cover of Vogue.Tyler Mitchell is an artist a photographer and a filmmaker. Tyler Mitchells work is about black Beauty and desire, embracing themes of the past and creating fictionalised moments of the imaged future.
Chris Killip
Portraiture in Photography-Breaking the conventions
This is Samuel Fosso This is Vivienne Mair
People have portrayed one another for thousands of years . With the development of photography we have created a completely new language for capturing the human image. Portrait photography has come a long way since it's early days when people purposefully posed to have their portrait taken. Photography has now developed into a more complex and varied genre, there are now opportunities to photograph for a variety of different reasons. Photographers are now much more experimental. Photographers take portraits for a variety of different reasons such as: self-portraiture, fine art, identity, social justice, documentary photography, fashion, activism, story telling, even to communicate powerful ideas about the world.
- Self PortraitsPeople in general are often enjoy exploring their identity and photography is a great tool to do so. Self-portraiture is one of the most popular genres of photography in history and today. Do self portraits have to be in focus? Do self portraits have to have a true likeness of the photographer? Many photographers have chosen to depict self in a variety of interesting and innovative ways.
- As well I picked these two pictures because the detail in the background and it shows u what is going on in the image. One is very colourful different colours and a lot of different pattens, I picked picture 2 because it shows an olderly women standing with a camera in her hand and then there is 2 young girls sitting down upset like something has happened like someone has died or having a bad day. They are both a different by the colour shapes the right one looks way older then the one on the left it looks very doll compare to the colourful one.
- In the self-portrait The Chief: He Who Sold Africa to the Colonists, Samuel Fosso uses his physical body and identity to conceptualize the theme of “selling Africa”, both through the visual consumption and construction of Africa and through historical caricatures of authoritative figures who literally sold people and resources for personal gain (Figure 1). He places himself in the center of a rich, vibrant room with a background of multi-patterned fabrics reminiscent of earlier African studio portraiture such as Seydou Keita. His body is distinctly outlined from the background fabric and he is sitting on a leopard skin throne. Theresa Sims writes that as part of a series commissioned by the French department store Magasins Tati and at the beginning of the recognition of his work as “African photography” in an international context, the photograph satirizes the idea of Africa as a commodity for consumption and his own role in the international art market in selling his photographs as visual representations of Africa.
- Vivienne Mair was an American street photographer whose work was discovered and recognised after her death, she was born on the 1 of February 1926 and then died in April 21 2009.
- Maier's massive body of work would come to light when in 2007 her work was discovered at a local thrift auction house on Chicago's Northwest Side. From there, it would eventually impact the world over and change the life of the man who championed her work and brought it to the public eye, John Maloof.
- Why did Vivienne Mair become a photographer.
- Although born in the U.S., it was in France that Maier spent most of her youth. Maier returned to the U.S. in 1951 where she took up work as a nanny and care-giver for the rest of her life. In her leisure however, Maier had begun to venture into the art of photography.
- Why did Samuel Fosso become a photographer ?
- In 1972, Fosso moved to Bangui, capital of Central African Republic, to work in his uncle's shoe factory. He took an interest in photography and left the factory to apprentice for a photographer. After learning the medium, Fosso set up his own photography studio in Bangui at the age of thirteen.
- samuel fosso has done photography since 1962), one of the most renowned contemporary African artists working today. Spanning his five-decade career, Samuel Fosso: The Man with a Thousand Faces revisits bodies of work that explore issues central to the contemporary art scene.
- Another thing about vivienne mair was a nanny for 40 years during she was a nanny she took over 150,000 photographs. 27 of march 2015 , back in her native city Vivian Maier decided to become a nanny and found a decent live-in position with a well-off family
- Self Portraits
- People in general are often enjoy exploring their identity and photography is a great tool to do so. Self-portraiture is one of the most popular genres of photography in history and today. Many photographers have chosen to depict self in a variety of interesting and innovative ways.
- How did vivian die ?
- In 2008 Vivian fell on a patch of ice and hit her head in downtown Chicago. Although she was expected to make a full recovery, her health began to deteriorate, forcing Vivian into a nursing home. She passed away a short time later in April of 2009, leaving behind her immense archive of work. Vivian was an olderly women when she died her age was 83 years.