‘at every level,and within every context the portrait photgraphy is fraught with ambiguity’-Graham clarke The Portrait in Photgraphy The most difficult thing for me is a portrait. You have to try and put your camera between the skin of a person and his shirt.-Henri Cartier-Bresson “A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed.” – Richard Avedon “A portrait isn’t a fact but an opinion – an occasion rather than a truth.”-Richard Avedon A good portrait ought to tell something of the subject’s past and suggest something of his future.-Bill Brandt To see people as they are, as they imagine themselves, as they wish to be. To be witness, the friend, the judge, the accomplice. To record their moment. -Annie Leibovitz When I have had such men before my camera my whole soul has endeavoured to do its duty towards them in recording faithfully the greatness of the inner as well as the features of the outer man. The photograph thus taken has been almost the embodiment of a prayer.-Julia Margaret Cameron Portraiture has always had a degree of propaganda about it. From the pre-photography days when portraits were the domain of the wealthy, they […]
Some photographs in Country doctor can be encountered on their own with each providing its own narrative- see examples below: