Under application it is important to discuss the history of this type of photography and to use examples form past and present.
Where there any major dates or events that moved this style forwards?
Are there any individual people that have influenced this type of photography?
Over the many years of photography portrait pictures have been transformed from a normal family picture with everybody lined up, posing and smiling or a single person sitting and smiling it has moved on to people being capture in their own environment showing their real emotions instead of smile because there was a camera.
The different style of taking a portrait picture had completely transformed how people were shown. It took picture from the persons natural environment without them posing. Portrait pictures could now contain more then just a simple traditional portrait picture to a whole new option where emotions, and events could be shown through.
In the 60's Diane Arbus was quite well known for taking picture of people in everyday life but making sure the subject was not posing or putting on an act in front of the camera so you could really see who the person was and capturing them from a more natural perspective.
Diane Arbus, shown, is the photographer who moved photography forwards with her idea of capturing people in their own environments and not posing. She made portrait pictures become more but showing and exposing people for what they really are.
Context
Under the context section list and describe each of the contexts that we the audience consume this style of image. Context is the way the photographs are displayed for example fashion photographs are displayed in magazines as well as billboards. It is important when discussing this section that you mention important changes for each context through history.
Today portrait pictures are still fairly popular and you can see them being displayed and shown to the world in many different ways. You can see them:
- On bill-boards
- Art gallaries
- Magazines, News papers and Books
- Passports, Identity Cards
Techniques
Are there any techniques utilised to create images of this type? For example the way the picture is Taken, Processed, Displayed or manufactured?
How has the change in technology through history altered or changed the way that photographs of this style are produced?
* Lighting
In the beginning a portrait picture had lighting and things were set up but when the change in portrait picture happened there didn't need to be the perfect lighting as this new style within portraits was exposing people in their everyday natural life.
*Studio set up
*Techniques for catching the person unaware.
There wasnt really any percific way of catching people unaware its just the simple art of waiting and finding somebody minding their own buisness ad taking a photo of them in their natural enviorment.
*The Paper/canvas orientation that many portraits are printed
