Chapter 6: The Portrait in Photography

I love Mapplethorpe's photograph of Apollo's sculpture. I think it captures a lot. I think it almost looks as if it were a real person. You can hardly tell it is a sculpture if you were to just glance at it. The book says that portrait photography should include aesthetic interactions, cultural interactions, ideological interactions, and sociological and psychological interactions. You can tell a lot by a portrait photograph by where the person is looking. Some people when beging photographed look away as seeming to say, "Look at me, I will not look back." while others gaze back and say, "I dare you." or "What's up!" Just like pictures that are taken today. Portraits have been taken throughout the years of famous people, infamous people, and everything in between.