DIANE ARBUS
Diane Arbus was an intriguing and inspiring photographer. She was commonly noted for her black and white squared photographs and her deep profound interest for people of different disabilities and uniqueness. Some may have referred to her as the “photographer of freaks”, as she had the tendency to take out portraits of people that were seen different to society Arbus was born March 14, 1923 in New York, as Diane Nemerov. Her father worked hard to later own a department store. Both Diane and her husband Allan Arbus worked with Diane’s father in shooting advertisements for the store and they also contributed to well established magazines such as Glamour, Seventeen and Vogue. The Arbus’s hated the fashion world and were more intrigued by the other aspects of photography.
After quitting the commercial photography business, Arbus began to do some photography assignments for The Sunday Times Magazine. Around this time, she decide to switch from a 35,, Nikon camera which produced grainy rectangular images to a twin-lens refles Rolleiflex camera which produced more detailed square images. A lot of Arbus's pictures were taken outdoors or at events, her pictures were hardly ever contrived. She also done a lot of her photography in Central Park New York, where she would find ordinary people, and took their photos.
Personally, I believe that Arbus preffered this was of photography because they were everyday people that she probably could have related to. She captured ppeople of different social statuses and ages. Looking at her pictures, would make the audience think and imagine the life story of the person within the portrait, or what they might have been thinking at that exact moment. Her pictures were not conventional of what society would call 'beautiful', but they were very interesting. Interesting, only for the fact that people couldnt understand why she would want to photograph these people and also because it made them think twice, and notice something that was always there, but they never seemed to notice.
Portraits Photography (Portraiture) are usually of a people, positioned from head to toe. It can be a group of people, or just one person, mainly and usually always focusing on the expressions given by the people in the image. The objective is so that the audience will be able to sense the emotions of the person in the image. Not often is a portrait a snap shot. It is commonly contrived and you will come to find that in most portraits, the person or group of people are looking towards the camera.
Portraiture has been around for many decades, and could be considered the first type of photography ever. It has been around before cameras were invented, when painters would paint the more upper class people. It does not require many skills, as we all are able to take out an average portrait. However, what makes Diane Arbus' pictures different to a basic portrait, is that she didn't just take out a picture of anyone. She captured, people who she found interesting and different. She also managed to capture moments in time that says a whole lot in one picture, through pure just expressions. Such as her most famous picture of the little boy in time square, with an angry/psycho expression whilst holding a toy grenade.
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Personally, I believe that Arbus preffered this was of photography because they were everyday people that she probably could have related to. She captured ppeople of different social statuses and ages. Looking at her pictures, would make the audience think and imagine the life story of the person within the portrait, or what they might have been thinking at that exact moment. Her pictures were not conventional of what society would call 'beautiful', but they were very interesting. Interesting, only for the fact that people couldnt understand why she would want to photograph these people and also because it made them think twice, and notice something that was always there, but they never seemed to notice.
Portraits Photography (Portraiture) are usually of a people, positioned from head to toe. It can be a group of people, or just one person, mainly and usually always focusing on the expressions given by the people in the image. The objective is so that the audience will be able to sense the emotions of the person in the image. Not often is a portrait a snap shot. It is commonly contrived and you will come to find that in most portraits, the person or group of people are looking towards the camera.
