Emmit Gowin
Today, I will show you some great portraits and we'll get in groups and we'll start planning to photograph one another. Find five great portrait photographers online, tell me who took the pictures and why you like the images, and add them to your blog before next class. Your goal is to make five great portraits of each person in your group, including yourself. The photograph needs to be strong compositionally, be interesting to look at, and should tell us something about the person being photographed. A pretty tall order, sounds a lot like a collaboration between the subject and the photographer to me...
Make sure you bring your pictures with you to next class, on your hard drive. ALL OF THEM.
The following images were made by Edward Curtis, he is the fellow on the right with the fine hat and goatee. He started this project to record the way of life of the North American Indian in 1907, and made more than 40,000 images of them. You can see many of them at the Library of Congress.
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/search/?q=edward%20curtis
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