Portraiture

Portraiture has been around for many years but in the form of paintings and the most famous portrait painting is by MONA LISA by Leonardo Da Vinci. But as technology developed the transition swung into action from Paintings to Photography

Diaine Arbus Was a lady photographer in the 1960s. Arbus was a unique photographer in the sense that she captured the people and almost exploited peoples life’s and faces. Arbus photographed the famous and filthy rich including Konrad matthaeis family, one particular photograph gathered people’s attention and showed what kind of work Arbus did was a picture of Marcella Matthaei 1969. This picture showed her true emotions and really confused the minds of the person in the picture and today’s people. But unfortunately Diaines life was cut short as she took her own life.

Richard Avaden Was an extraordinary photographer that has his own style of portraiture he captured the person behind the mask i.e. made them show who there. He put the person that he took the picture of on a pedestal also he captured the description of the people.

Larry Clark brought the dark side to photography, also he shows raw and sometimes disturbing images. Larry Clark took pictures of nude,sex,drugs and rock n roll . He put some of his pictures in a book entitled "Tulsa".