Ok folks, I need some advice from the “veterans” of the platform: I can’t seem to find those many #portrait photographers. That’s what I primarily do so that’s what I’m mainly interested in. Any suggestions? How to find them? Anyone you personally know to recommend? I’d like to switch my focus here and need to understand the logics.
Thanks guys!

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Illustration by Samuel G. Szabó, from Rogues, A Study of Characters (1857).

Source: The Metropolitan Museum

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/554fcf2a-6a8e-420f-852f-0a950281b224

#portraiture #character #portraits #mugshots #criminals #identification #faces #crime #art #publicdomain

Soft Graves

Older piece of mine, I am thinking 2017 or 2018. I was doing a lot of b/w photos back then and was utilizing dust and hair to create very textured portraits.

#darkart #darkphotography #macabre #occult #bnw #blackandwhite #photography #blackandwhitephotography #portraiture

"Henry McBride on Winslow Homer," Florine Stettheimer, c. 1924.

Stettheimer (1871-1944) was many things (feminist, theatrical set designer, salonkeeper, all-around intellectual), but she was notably a Modernist painter with her own individual style.

In the 20s, some Modernists began to experiment with portraiture, going more for symbolism than just showing the person's face. Here, Stettheimer paints her friend, art critic Henry McBride, who was devoted to American art. Here he's incorporated into a painting by his favorite artist, Winslow Homer, and looking up at a miniature version of himself at the top of the tree, waving two American flags, indicating his devotion to art from the good ol' USA.

It's an amusing portrait that borders on caricature, but affectionately so, Perhaps a good painting for April Fool's Day?

From the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

#Art #Modernism #WomenArtists #Portraiture #Caricature #AprilFoolsDay

Future Uncertainty

Planning for the future feels impossible right now. War, genocide, fascism, climate disasters, surveillance states, economic collapse...the list is endless.

#photography #glitchart #glitchcore #cyberpunk #digitalart #portraiture #transartists #queerartists

Blurred acrylic self portrait on canvas inspired by #gerhardrichter

#art #artoftheday #contemporaryart #selfportrait #myart #mastoart #portraiture