Blog Notes: Ch. 5 Portraits (p. 103-107)

• formal portraits - emphasize only subject in photograph (person)
• candid portraits - capture person in everyday activities
• environmental portraits - person in setting that says something about them
• photography replaced painting as primary medium of portraits (people = popular subjects)
• Gaspard-Felix Tournachon (1820-1910) - a.k.a. "Nadar," 1853: started photoraphing in France, first great portrait photographer, soft lighting + dark backgrounds = formal & eloquent portraits, comfortable working relationship = "speaking likeness" (portraits reveal subjects' personalities)
• August Sander (1876-1964) - Germany, created some of the first environmental portraits (settings of lives & work), 1892-1954: great photographic documentary of Germans
• values - what catches our attention first, textures & shapes, depth, emotional content, emphasis
• shape - when a line meets itself, flat, 2-D
• organic - flowing curves & irregular outlines
• geometric - circles, ovals, squares, triangles, etc.
• form - 3-D shape