Portraiture

[amolitor]

Bad portraitists think it's about they light.

Good ones know it's about that moment.

If you can get 'em both, great!

[Stanmore]

Hi, glad you enjoyed!

As you know some of the characters, perhaps this might interest you too, if you haven't seen it already:

http://www.duffyphotographer.com/video/

I often wonder about Donovan's ending, and question if he perhaps felt the end of an era looming large. Bailey, in a video I saw a few days back, said that he saw the death of photography thirty years ago, though I'm not sure of the date of that video. He then says that he simply switched his attention to art. Did Donovan have that choice, any further outlets?

It's not an easy life to lead, however well you do, it seems.

Rob C

I've not met Duffy or Donovan, or the late-great Bob Carlos Clarke for that matter.
Will check out the Duffy vid as soon as I have an hour (thanks again  . There was an exhihibition of his work in London a few years back, and his imagination + technical ability were highly impressive.

[Antonio Correia]

[Rob C]

Another very successful lady with an often very minimalist portrait style:

http://www.brigittelacombe.com/index.php

Another, totally different, but very worthy, and usually filed in a different shoebox:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrODn0f1z0g

Rob C

[brianrybolt]

STANLEY

From a series of 'portraits of residents' who live in a Care Home.

[D Fuller]

A few recent examples in quite different styles:

[Antonio Correia]

Another very successful lady with an often very minimalist portrait style:

http://www.brigittelacombe.com/index.php

Another, totally different, but very worthy, and usually filed in a different shoebox:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrODn0f1z0g

Rob C

Thank you Rob for the excellent links provide !

Brigitte Lacombe is a great photographer indeed. And so was Dorothea...

[Antonio Correia]

STANLEY

From a series of 'portraits of residents' who live in a Care Home.

What a "serious" work Brian. By "serious" I mean excellent, exquisite and pleasant work.
I am sure it has been rather difficult to do. I am sure some people agreed and some didn't, obviously. I am also sure you were very patient.
Did you photograph with a large format camera or a DSLR ? The light seems very homogeneous and all the portraits are sharp. Excellent work Brian !
Why did you opt for color and not black and white ?
I noticed that all your images are very coherent and consistent in style. Good, good !
thank you for showing us your image...

[Rob C]

Another woman absolutely overloaded with talent is this one:

http://www.dominiqueissermann.com/#!parutions/cr6i

We poor guys must start a campaign to ban ladies from touching cameras; they (women) have far too much vision, talent and access.

;-)

Rob C

P.S. Don't skip the movies. On the first one, think what you could do with a face so plastic! Dream on...

[Rob C]

Pondering portraits, I was reminded of the infamous (in the UK, at least) Christine Keeler chair shot by Lewis Morley; funny to think Edward Weston did much the same with Charis Wilson.

Of the Weston 'muses', I would feel obliged to give my vote to Tina Modotti over Charis. Nothing personal, you understand, just that I think the latter a better face for photography. Those eyes... Sarah Moon would have had a field day; maybe she actually was influenced by Tina.

Rob C

[RSL]

Tina Modott... Those eyes... That compact body...

I agree, Rob.

[Antonio Correia]

[Antonio Correia]

A colored one for a change

[Rob C]

António, you have a lovely approach (and execution!).

Stay with what you do. It works very well.

Rob C

[Antonio Correia]

António, you have a lovely approach (and execution!).

Stay with what you do. It works very well.

Rob C

Thank you Rob.
I worked on the colored version long ago. Now I think some fine detail is missing in the hat...

[Petrus]

The leader of the Maiden's dance procession at Repkong Shaman festival in Amdo, Tibet.

[Antonio Correia]

Good work Petrus !

An old image from Buthan

[Rob C]

I agree, Rob.

This link's quite useful:

https://www.google.es/search?q=edward+weston+tina+modotti+imagenes&biw=1255&bih=889&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0CB8QsARqFQoTCM-LoMmpi8gCFQY6iAodxRACoQ

Speaking of tight bodies, imagine this: it was in the days before plastic ones.

Again, I have to sigh: them wuz the days!

;-)

Rob C

[Antonio Correia]

Oh Rob... so many good images to see ...

Thanks !

[Rob C]

Oh Rob... so many good images to see ...

Thanks !

Yeah, but these people were different: they led lives, not existences. And it didn't depend simply on dough rey me.

When you think back to their times, they flew smack in the face of so much prejudice, hypocrisy, and took it all in their strides or simply ignored it.

But artists are different, regardless of the PC noses that may put out of joint.

Rob C



P.S.

http://www.gallerylumiere.com/english/ex/edward/main.asp

A very short tale about the pair.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/photography/10104447/Tina-Modotti-An-amazing-life-in-photography.html

The above about Tina.

https://www.google.es/search?q=margrethe+mather+imagenes&biw=1255&bih=889&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0CCIQsARqFQoTCP-Jtqa3i8gCFcbYGgodvIoLIw#imgrc=SazbcCnrFrysiM%3A

Above, yet another 'friend' until he tore her out of his catalogue - both ways.