AL Workbook v8 Ch4
AL Workbook v8 Ch4
PORTRAIT
PHOTOGRAPHY
CHAPTER RE VIE W
• “Capturing” the Person Annie has been working steadily for decades and has accumulated
a body of work that is a record of the culture of our time. She has
• W hat Makes a Great Photograph? worked with some of her subjects at many different points in their
lives over the years. Arnold Schwarzenegger, for instance, moved
from the once outré world of bodybuilding to being a movie star
and then the governor of California. His trajectory colored the
way we look at the early portraits now. Historical context affects
the meaning of pictures. The portraits of Caitlyn Jenner taken for
Vanity Fair when she was announcing her transition to a woman
record a very specific personal and cultural moment. The portraits
of Zaha Hadid took on a different weight after she died.
The idea that one photograph can “capture” a person is, Annie
says, baloney. She often runs more than one portrait, or even
a series, which gives a better sense of the range of identities
within one person. She says that she threw out the concept of
the decisive moment some time ago.
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PORTRAIT
PHOTOGRAPHY
A S SI G NMENT
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PHOTO INDEX
R o ll i n g Sto n e, e a r ly 1970 s
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Caitlyn Jenner
Malibu, California, 2015
Zaha Hadid
New York City, 2003
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Alexandra Fuller
Kelly, Wyoming, 2016
Sally Mann
Lexington, Virginia, 2015
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PHOTO INDEX
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PHOTO INDEX
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