Portrait Artists

Portrait Artists

1. Arnold Newman

   • Arnold Newman was born in New York in 1918 and later died due to natural causes in 2006.
   • Newman was an American photographer, known for his environmental portraits of artists and politicians. He was also known for his carefully composed abstract still life images.

2. Irving Penn

   • Irving Penn was born in New Jersey in 1917 and later died in New York in 2009
   • Penn was an American photographer known for his fashion photography, still lifes and portraits. Penns career included work at Vogue Magazine, and independent advertising work for clients including Issey Miyake and Clinique.

3. Julia Margaret Cameron

   • Julia Margaret Cameron was born in India in 1815 and later passed in Sri Lanka in 1879
   • Cameron was a British photographer who is considered one of the most important portraitists of the 19th century, She is known for her soft- focus close- ups of famous victorian men and for illustrative images depicting characters from mythology, Christianity and literature

4. Mary Ellen Mark

   • Mary Ellen Mark was born in Pennsylvania in 1940 and later passed in New York in 2015
   • Mark was an American photographer known for her photojournalism, documentary photography, portraiture and advertising photography. She photographed people who were 'away from mainstream and toward its more interesting, often troubled fringes'.

5. Man Ray

   • Man Ray was born in 1890 in Pennsylvania and later died in 1976 in France
   • Ray was an American visual artist who spent most of his career in Paris. He was a significant contributor to the Dada and Surrealist movements, although his ties to each were informal. He produced major works in a variety of media but considered himself a painter above all.

6. Diane Arbus

   • Diane Arbus was born in New York in 1923 and later passed in New York in 1971.
   • Arbus was an American photographer. Arbus's imagery helped to normalise marginalised groups and highlight the importance of proper representation of all people

7. Gertrude Käsebier

   • Gertrude Käsebier was born in Des Moines in 1852 and later died in New York in 1934
   • Käsebier was an American photographer. She was known for her images of motherhood, her portraits of Native Americans, and her promotion of photography as a career for women.

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