In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view. The image may not be literally what's going on, but it's representative.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view and to be conceptual with a picture. The image may not be literally what's going on, but it's representative.
There's a discipline. When you take someone's portrait, you don't have to take 50 photographs, just find that one so that when you release the shutter, that's the image that you took.
Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on.
I think a photograph, of whatever it might be - a landscape, a person - requires personal involvement. That means knowing your subject, not just snapping at what's in front of you.
My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.
Your aim as a photographer is to get a picture of that person that means something. Portraits aren't fantasies; they need to tell a truth.
To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.
I kept wanting to push my image as validity; I wanted to see my portrait on a wall and know it was okay.
When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.
We demand that people should be true to the pictures we have of them, no matter how repulsive those pictures may be: we prefer the true portrait in all its homogeneity, to one with a detail added which refuses to fit in.