Portrait photography

As a portrait photograph is called a photographic genre, are created at the portraits of living beings; Motifs are mostly people, often animal portraits are drawn. The aim of the artistic portrait photography is usually the photographic working out the characteristic nature of the subject.

General

A variant of applied portrait photography can be found in criminology, where such images are produced in the anthropometry and for making wanted posters and passport photos. With the prints of photographs of the homeless from the years 1852-1853 of the Bernese photographer Carl Durheim the world's first search directory was created.

Portrait photographs are made by professional photographers; these often operate specially equipped photo studios, portrait studios. But even amateur photographers deal with portrait photography. Special Portrait lenses are telephoto lenses with a focal length of between about 80 and 135 mm (based on the small picture format ).

History and Development

Probably the first commercial application of photography were portraits, André Adolphe -Eugène Disdéri (1819-1900) created in 1854 ( Business Portraits, carte de visite - ). As a result, he developed numerous portrait studios that were particularly frequented by middle- middle class. It established a displacement of the profession of portrait painter.

Portrait photography was independent of the special case of Business portraits of great importance for the photography of the early period. The main problem of the long exposure time is achieved by special fixing and retaining devices such as Saronnys universal head support. However, still a great deal of patience when portrayed was required.

Among the pioneers of this genre include: Hermann Biow, Lewis Carroll, Julia Margaret Cameron, Franz Hanfstaengl, David Octavius ​​Hill, Nadar, Oscar Gustave Rejlander and Southworth & Hawes.

Well-known portrait photographers

Right

In the German Empire there was the first time in 1902 a draft law which grants a "right to their own image "; see also Figure rights.

Examples of portraits

Half profile: Leonard Bernstein

Profile: Giovanni Kessler

Lost Profile: Marie Stillman Spartali

Organism John William Draper Carla Fracci David Octavius Hill Josiah Johnson Hawes Albert Watson (photographer) German Reich Marie Spartali Stillman Integrated Authority File
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