Portrait photography is some of the most iconic work created by photographers — so we went out in search of the New Photographic Portrait.  Learn the essential techniques of flash and studio lighting that will deliver more pleasing, more flattering photos. Artists` self-portraits are an interesting sub-group of portraiture and can often be highly self-revelatory. Among leading modern artists portrait painting on commission, that is to order, became increasingly rare. At the same time, photography became the most important medium of traditional portraiture, bringing what was formerly an expensive luxury product affordable for almost everyone.David Stewart is this year`s winner of the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2015 for his group portrait of his daughter and her friends.  Explore the development of portraiture with our slideshow of key Tate artworks from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century, or use the links below to search these periods within Tate`s collection. Artist Damien Hirst discusses his long-lived fascination with Bacon`s depiction of horror, death and human fragility. Dutch artist Rineke Dijkstra uses photography and film to portray individuals at transformative moments in their lives. In The Weeping Woman, Dijkstra asks young people what they see in Picasso`s Weeping Woman. Tom Oldham`s Gilbert and George (2015) portrait was commissioned by Time Out New York.After antiquity and the holy family, here is a portrait of the modern family, from the fifteenth century to today. Inspired by the haunting faces and bodies in Dumas` work, author Colm Tóibín delves into the interior life of a lonely narrator and paints a full and moving portrait of a man with words instead of brush strokes. Perhaps it`s because that`s exactly what Joyce does chapter-to-chapter in Portrait of the Artist. However, there`s a way to make it look like both landscape and portrait slides are in one presentation by linking together two separate presentations, one with slides in landscape orientation, and one with slides in portrait orientation.In 1993 , he was temporarily the guard to the Gryffindor Tower while the Fat Lady `s portrait was being repaired. You will see the the works of outstanding portrait photographers of our time, and learn the lessons of portrait photography. Correctly chosen position for photographing – is another key criterion for getting a good portrait photo. Portrait of a Novel By Michael Gorra The story of a man and his masterpiece that helped bring literature into a new age. Also, try using the manual focus in order to focus on specific features of baby.Martin Schoeller is perhaps best known for his celebrity portraiture—beautiful, tight portraits of well-known figures from Paris Hilton to Bill Clinton, images that provide intimate views of familiar faces. If anything, Gross seems to be engaging in wishful thinking, painting a portrait of the economy that would be wonderful if true. And the John Kobal New Work Award, went to Tereza Červeňová for her portrait of her friend Yngvild. Winter Virus (2015) by Sian Davey is a portrait of the photographer`s daughter, from the Looking for Alice series, an illustration of family life. Noriko Takasugi`s And I wake up and start drawing (2014) is from a portrait of the artist and writer Yayoi Kusama, taken at her studio in Tokyo, commissioned by the Sunday Telegraph.

Joseph P. Smith`s portrait Village Butcher, captures Anthony, a third generation butcher from Zurrieq, Malta, pictured producing his favourite delicacy of Maltese sausage, made using traditional methods. The winning and shortlists portraits will be on display at the National Portrait Gallery from 12 November 2015 to 21 February 2016. A residency at The Edge , State Library of Queensland, enables an artist aged 18 to 30 to participate in a community exploring creativity across art, science, technology and enterprise.Their beauty and precision strongly impressed the judges Karen Vickery (National Portrait Gallery), Anne `Hehir (National Gallery of Australia), Nell (artist) and Dr Christopher Chapman (National Portrait Gallery). When we were in China, I wasn`t really expecting to enjoy the portrait sessions but I ended up loving them! Artist Darlene Rzeztarski Wesenberg creates intimate sculptural scenes and portraits that show people in their environments.While others, such as Colin Matthes, retired UWM professor Adolph Rosenblatt and the self-taught Manitowoc artist Rudy Rotter , allow the many marks from the pushing, prodding and pinching of the clay to lend a hand-hewn expressive spontaneity to the work. In addition, Portrait Society has spearheaded a special project where twenty artists were invited to paint portraits of fellow Wisconsin artists (dead or alive) on ceramic plates which were hand thrown by potter Scott Dercks of the Milwaukee Potters Guild. Vélez considers Walter Robinson, whom with the artist worked closely at Artnet, as an important muse.Pedro Vélez and Greg Klassen present new bodies of work at Portrait Society Gallery, September 11 through November 14, 2015, in an exhibition titled Revealing Nature. The artist has revisited past photographic work as well as personal relationships, romantic relationships, break ups and places in order to analyze what tends to spark his creativity. The artist has found that certain people are constantly repeated in his work while other people with whom he has had important relationships are barely featured. Portrait Society is a progressive, contemporary art gallery in Milwaukee, WI dedicated to the issues surrounding the genre of portraiture.His work as both an artist and writer has been discussed in the LATimes, Chicago Tribune, Al Jazeera America, Huffington Post, New York Times, Artforum, Mutual Art, Frieze, Artspace and The Miami Herald among many other publications. Established in 2008, the gallery showcases both current and historic artists who work broadly and loosely with the conceptual ideas embedded in portrait traditions.