1. Portraits

2. Part I: Historical Foundations and a Definition
what is a portrait ?
 what comes to your mind when you think to ‘portraits’ ?

3. A portrait is …
“a painting, drawing, photograph, or engraving of a person, especially one depicting only the face or head and shoulders.” (Source: Oxford English Dictionary.)
group portraits,
portraits of couples ,
families ,
self-portraits…
There are other forms of portraits …

4. A few historical examples of portraits:
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5. 1806

6. Part II: Abstraction and the Portrait
Compare

7. Part III: Photography and the Portrait
 Walker Evans Tenant Farmer’s Wife, Alabama, 1936
 Matthew Zimmerman , Marilyn Monroe, 1954
Dorothea Lange , Migrant Mother,1936
 VJ Day in Times Square, 1945, alfred Eisenstaedt