Portraiture

Application

Portraiture started off as a painting of someone who was rich or who very powerful who would hire a skilled painter to capture and show this in a painting of them, so whoever was posing in that portrait was the owner of it. However over time portraiture has evolved and the possession has changed, the man or woman behind the camera now owns that portrait, seeing as they are the ones to decide what it shows or portrays.

The old compare to the new, A portrait of Vangogh (left) and William-Aldolphe Bougouere (right)
these are both self portraits however.


Context

Pretty much everywhere we go nowadays you can find portraiture, many businesses and companies will use it to promote products they sell, using famous people to make them more popular. We find them in leaflets, on billboards, magazines and in newspapers mainly. Celebrities tend to have their own websites for the public to see so these are the likeliest places to find them. An advantage of portrait is that it uses less space so this is why many magazines and newspapers will use them over landscape.

Techniques
One technique is the texture, in fact this is a big part of it. it is used to make many images seem to jump out at you from the page. Matching the background texture to the foreground is important if you are to use this technique, otherwise it will look strange.

Fashion Photography

Application

Fashion photography is a type of photography generally devoted to displaying items of clothing and other things in fashion. Fashion photography is most often used for advertisements or fashion magazines such as Vogue, Vanity Fair, or Allure. Over it's time, fashion photography has developed its own aesthetic in which the clothes and fashions are made to stand out by the presence of exotic locations or accessories.

Photography was developed in the 1830s, but the earliest popular technique, the dauerrotype was not usable for mass printing. Come 1856, Adolphe Braun created a book containing roughly 288 photographs of Virginia Olodoini, Countess di Castiglione, making her the first fashion model.

Context

In the first decade of the 20th century, advances in half tone printing allowed fashion photographs to be featured in magazines. Fashion photography made its first appearance in French magazines such as La mode practique. Condé nato took over Vogue magazine and also contributed to the beginnings of fashion photography.

AS an audience we are presented with this type of photography when shopping for clothes, or looking at magazines. fashion photography is often used to try to sell us something.

Techniques

Fashion Photography is distinctive, in most of this type of photograph there will be an elaborate object or background there to make it all look more appealing and glamorous. Also when taking this type of photo a photographer could throw away hundreds of images because only one is deemed the perfect picture.

Art Photography

Application

I Think of art as an expression of something that interests you or even of your mind. It interests me when i see abstract art because that show that the artist was probably quite a character. Among the many Art Photographers, a few are Edward Steichen, John Szarkowski and F.Holland Day, these three spent their lives using Photography as a fine art.

Conceptual Photography is a form of using photos to show something that represents and idea, in a conceptual photograph it is not unusual to find rather abstract ideas.

Edward Steichen

John Szarkowski

Context

Artists use photo editing methods like trick photography to make bizarre ideas become real, another popular thing to do is blur out the background and focus in on on e particular part of thr picture. Different variations of backgrounds are used, for example studios and real places, it usual is down to what the artist sees.


Techniques

The early artists never had editing programs like we do today. people like Josef Heinreich used other photos and stuck them to one big one. This is the earliest form of Photoshop in a way. But the modern way of doing it gives the artist various different tools to do the job.