Glossary
| Connotation. | |
| Detonation | |
| Genre | The term “genre” refers to a category or classification used to organize and identify works of art, literature, music, film, and other forms of cultural expression based on shared characteristics, themes, styles, or conventions. Genres provide a framework for understanding and categorizing creative works, allowing audiences to navigate and explore diverse artistic expressions more effectively. |
| Photography codes | |
| Portrait | |
| Poststructuralism | |
| Reality and realism. | |
| Rhetoric | |
| Semiotics | |
| Structuralism | |
| Quotes | |
| August Sander |
“Photography is by nature a documentary art.” |
| David Bate |
…in the same way that a [film] poster creates an expectation for the film, so a genre in photography – portraiture, landscape, still life, documentary etc. – creates an expectation for the meanings to be derived from that type of photograph. Each genre creates an expectation for particular types of understanding. Whether the photograph gratifies that expectation is another matter. ( Photography: The Key Concepts ) |
| Diane Arbus |
“For me, the subject of the picture is always more important than the picture.” |
| Henri Cartier-Bresson |
In a portrait, I’m looking for the silence in somebody |
| Oscar Wilde |
“every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself.” |
| Ricard Avadon |
“A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed.” |
| Wim Wenders |
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