Thoughts on portraiture: a morning with Bridget (and the Fuji X100s) |
James Conley

I get depressed every time I see a headshot. Our sense of the „portrait“ has been degraded to the most superficial and meaningless, and the headshot has now been consecrated as the most important popular image: the „selfie.“ This is bad enough. But when photographers succumb to this popular misconception as a standard, it’s easy to lose hope. Like most things, a large part of the problem is the language. When a photographer is asked to make a „portrait“ the photographer of course relies upon the common definition, which is informed by the popular language. This is the start of the problem, but photographers often make it worse with their conception of their „subject.“ Photographers commonly talk about the „subject“ of a portrait, just as we would talk about the „subject“ of a product illustration. By commoditizing the object of our attention, we also limit the ways in which we think about it……..

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