Look at the paintings of Amadeo Modigliani and learn from him. He broke the canons of his time.
Look at the paintings of Amadeo Modigliani and learn from him. He broke the canons of his time.
"I have never in my life made music for money or fame. God walks out of the room when you are thinking about money." -- Quincy Jones
Arnold Newman, Douglas Kirkland, August Sander are three that come to mind.
In our own forum, on the most recent page of "In Praise of 5x7" in the images thread, look at the posts from Don Dudenbostel, and the group portraits by Tin Can. Those are fine examples of environmental portraiture with a large format camera. For a published photographer, look at the work of Shelby Lee Adams, who has an extensive body of portraits he made in his home region of Appalachia using a 4x5 (I think one of the handheld Graphics).
Thanks for the Adams reference, Peter. Powerful work.
Philip Ulanowsky
Sine scientia ars nihil est. (Without science/knowledge, art is nothing.)
www.imagesinsilver.art
https://www.flickr.com/photos/156933346@N07/
Duck Duck Go, my preferred alternative to Google, "envirnomental portraiture photography"
“You often feel tired, not because you've done too much, but because you've done too little of what sparks a light in you.”
― Alexander Den Heijer, Nothing You Don't Already Know
The prints for https://thebeardedladyproject.com/portraits/ are currently on show at the Lawrence Hall of Science (UC Berkeley, California). Since a lot are done while performing field work, they are about as 'environmental' as one can get. I won't comment on the 'bearded' premise of the work.
Three books that have made it to my house and definitely inspired me;
Blue Muse: Timothy Duffy's Southern Photographs
Revealing Character by Robb Kendrick
Harley Nation by Michael Pry
Martha casanave. Check out her book Trajectories: A Half Century of Portraits.
Also the work of Evelyn Hofer. Almost forgotten now, she did great work in the 1950s and 60s. See her books "London Perceived" and "Dublin: A Portrait".
Struth family portraits are kind of cool
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