Portrait photography or portraiture is photography of a person or group of people that displays the expression, personality, and mood of the subject. Like other types of portraiture, the focus of the photograph is usually the person's face, although the entire body and the background or context may be included René Burri – portrait of Pablo Picasso

A good portrait will contain at least one element that reveals the subject’s personality, attitude, unique mannerisms or any of the other features or traits that form the individual nature of the person. It will tell us something about the subject. When a photographer really “captures” their subject, the image is not just a true physical likeness, it also reveals a significant, identifiable part of the subject’s character. Mario Testino - Portrait of Mick Jagger & Keith Richards

Arthur Sasse portrait of Einstein Phillipe Halsman Portrait of Salvador Dali

Cecil Beaton portraits of Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn

Alfred Stieglitz portraits of Georgia O’Keeffe

Alexander Rodchenko

Vivian Maier Diane Arbus Self-portraits

Heavy weight boxer Rocky Marciano landing a punch.

Bill Brandt

The last Jew in Vinnitsa [1941], photographer unknown Cecil Beaton Blitz victim, three year old Eileen Dunne, in the Hospital for Sick Children, 1940.