ACPP: Portraiture

• Portrait Prize - No-one smiling - Criticism
• August Sander
• Structured way of recording
• Recording different types
• Grouped - Professions/Artists/The Last People
• 'The face of our time' - started 1904
• Dead-pan style
• Photographic inventory - 'Science & Art'
• Available light only
• Photographed the people who were on the periphery
• Circus performers/Disables - Not popular with the Nazis
• Published after the end of Nazi-Germany
• Treated everyone the same, not just poor or rich
• Charlotte Cotton - deadpan aesthetic
• Sander work was reaction to expressionism
• Rineke Djikstra
• Photographed subjects at times of change
• Nothing for the viewer to work our
• Similar pictures, difference are highlighted more
• 'On editing' - video, photographs of friends
• Simon Roberts - 'Motherland'
• Avoids cliches
• Subtle
• 5000 images edited for book
• Website for feedback and new ideas
• Joss McKinley
• Ability to interpret light
• Exposed only for highlights - mood to image
• Don't be afraid of too much shadow
• Deliberately under-exposes film