Thursday 5 January 2012

Portraiture

Portraiture has been around many many years and to this day the most famous picture of all has to be the Mona Lisa created by Leoanrdo Di Vinci, that was made many centeries and as time has gone on generations of family's understand the importance of this picture. it is said that it took about 8 years to complete as Leonardo stopped and started this picture.




This is another picture with value. this pocture was taken when Churchill was in power and it shows that he ahs ower by the stance the picture si taken in. he is standing looking very serious witha  slight stance. It is also very good because of the detail knowing that this picture came sucha  long time ago.

Cecil Beaton was a very powerful portrait photographer and was known as the photographer during the inter war years. he managed to tell peoples mood's just from pictures, and manage to capture what was going on around the images. He is also famous for taking pictures of Marilyn Monroe and wasnt just a photographer he was a set designer, actor and painter.

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