Portrait photography and photojournalism are two potentially intense and powerful art forms that don't always get the recognition they deserve, so we thought we should show you some of the most powerful and diverse portraits of people around the world that we've ever seen.

In 1905, when the Andean photographer Martín Chambi was 14 years old, he traveled to northwestern Peru with his father, who had a job working in a gold mine there. At the time, there were no indigenous photographers in the country, and images of the Quechua people were mostly captured through the lenses of French and American photographers.

I was astounded to learn that 22-year-old Hungarian photographer Noell S. Oszvald who lives and works in Budapest picked up a camera only a year ago. The gifted artist has shared only two dozen or so images with the world via Flickr but they already show an accomplished grasp of composition, editing and digital manipulation. Oszvald tells Alice over at My Modern Met that she chooses only to work in black and white because she finds color distracting from her conceptual ideas. More

E. Wiskovsky. 1935

Le Musée d'art contemporain de Denver (MCA Denver)présente Francesca Woodman: Portrait d'une Réputation, exposée du 20 septembre 2019 au 5 avril 2020.

Belgian painter Alfonse Van Besten (1865-1926) embraced technology, utilising innovative color processes to transfer black and white photographs into vivid, at times lurid autochromes. The tableaux of his autochromes (a technology patented by the Lumière brothers in 1903 and the first colour photographic process developed on an industrial scale) are often bucolic and romantic. Demure ladies and … Continue reading "Alfonse Van Besten’s Dreamy Autochromes (1910-1915)"

100 years of Robert Doisneau, one of the most fascinating photographers of XX Century. He was able to describe an entire universe with a single shoot, I think he has been the greatest poet of images.

Since 2006, artist Victor Enrich has been working on his project, City Portraits, a series of digitally manipulated images that transform photos into...

Producing digital photographs in the manner of old dutch master paintings and and those of the Italian renaissance from the 17th century, Hendrik Kerstens creates these clear dialogues between the art of painting and the art of photography. Hendrik Kerstens is an autodidact who decided in 1995 to dedicate himself entirely to photography. He is well‐known […]

Diane Arbus was a wonderful photographer known for her informal portraits - mostly of misfits, from the late-1940s onwards. These are the highest resolution Arbus scans that I could find online but I can't trace the original scanners. :(

Given that her complete catalogue is composed almost entirely of work she produced as a student, the posthumous critical esteem for American photographer Francesca Woodman is astonishing. Unlike music or math, where precocious displays of talent are not uncommon, photography tends not to have prodigies. Woodman, who committed suicide in 1981 at age 22, is considered a rare exception. That she has achieved such status is all the more remarkable considering only a quarter of the approximately 800 images she produced—many of them self-portraits—have ever been seen by the public.

Portrait of Mucha by A. Tasev Warszawa 1926 Alphonse (Alfons) Mucha (1860 – 1939) was a Czech painter and decorative artist born in 1860 born in the town of Ivančice, Moravia. He is best known for his luxurious poster and product designs, which encapsulate the Art Nouveau style. Contemporary interest in his work was revived in 1980 after an exhibition at the Grand Palais in Paris. For biographical notes on Mucha see part 1. For earlier works see parts 1 - 11 also. This is part 12 of a 12-part series on the works of Alphonse Mucha: Alphonse Mucha and photography Facts on Alphonse Mucha and photography from the Mucha Foundation http://www.muchafoundation.org Mucha began to take photographs in the early 1880s, probably in Vienna, with a borrowed camera. It was not until he had gained some recognition in Paris and sufficient funds that he purchased his first camera. Mucha’s photographic output grew dramatically after his move to a large studio in the rue du Val de Grâce in 1896. In the new studio, where he had considerably more light thanks to large windows and a glass ceiling, he photographed on a virtually daily basis. Between 1896 and the early 1900s Mucha made a series of photographs of the models posing for him. The use of photography as an inexpensive medium for preliminary studies was common among Mucha’s Parisian contemporaries. It was in his studio that that Mucha entertained countless Parisian artists, writers and musicians. It was also the setting for one of the earliest cinematic projections given by the Lumière brothers, whom Mucha had met in 1895, and for psychic experiments with Camille Flammarion and Albert de Rochas. In the background of the studies of models, examples of Mucha’s work may be seen, surrounded by his collection of objets d’art, books and furniture, many of which survive to this day. The majority of Mucha’s Parisian photographs were not taken for a specific project – he preferred to improvise a number of poses in front of the camera, creating an archive of variants from which he could select what he considered most suitable for the subject of each new commission. 1886c Karel Václav Mašek, Czech painter as a student at the Munich Academy of Art © Mucha Trust c1892 Self-portrait in his studio, Rue de la Grande Chaumière, Paris © Mucha Trust 1893 Paul Gauguin © Mucha Trust 1893 Illustration from 'Le Petit Français Illustré' employing the Paul Gauguin poses above and below © Alphonse Mucha Estate/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris 1893 Paul Gauguin © Mucha Trust c1893-94 Paul Gauguin playing Mucha’s harmonium in his studio, Rue de la Grande Chaumière, Paris © Mucha Trust c1893-94 Mucha, Gauguin, and friends at Rue de la Grande Chaumière, Paris © Mucha Trust c1896 Berthe de Lalande, Mucha’s mistress, in Mucha’s studio, Rue du Val de Grâce, Paris © Mucha Trust 1897 Photographic study © Mucha Trust 1897 Photographic study © Mucha Trust 1900 Cover of 'La Medecine' employing the above photographic pose © Alphonse Mucha Estate/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris c1897 Mucha's Studio, Mucha’s studio, Rue du Val de Grâce, Paris © Mucha Trust c1898 Photographic study © Mucha Trust c1898 Amilcare Cipriani, Italian revolutionary and socialist, in Mucha's studio, Rue du Val de Grâce, Paris © Mucha Trust 1899 Photographic study. Figure employed in the background of the illustration below © Mucha Trust 1899 'Menu de Pique-Nique' for the 'Almanach de Gourmands © Alphonse Mucha Estate/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris c1899 Untitled Female Nude gelatin silver print 13.8 x 8.89 cm © SFMOMA Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris 1900 Photographic study © Mucha Trust c1900 Mucha’s studio, Rue du Val de Grâce, Paris © Mucha Trust c1900 Mucha’s studio, Rue du Val de Grâce, Paris © Mucha Trust c1900 Mucha’s studio, Rue du Val de Grâce, Paris © Mucha Trust c1900 Mucha’s studio, Rue du Val de Grâce, Paris © Mucha Trust c1900 Mucha’s studio, Rue du Val de Grâce, Paris © Mucha Trust c1901 Ballet study Rue du Val de Grâce, Paris © Mucha Trust c1901 Mucha’s studio, Rue du Val de Grâce, Paris © Mucha Trust c1902-03 Mucha’s studio, Rue du Val de Grâce, Paris © Mucha Trust c 1903 Marie ( Maruška ) Chytilová, art student and Mucha’s future wife in his studio, Rue du Val de Grâce, Paris © Mucha Trust © Mucha Trust 1906 Photographic study for the illustration below © Mucha Trust 1906 'Everybody's Magazine' © Alphonse Mucha Estate/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris 1908 Study for a Decorative Panel gelatin silver print 12.4 x 9.9 cm © Mucha Trust Photographic study © Mucha Trust Photographic study © Mucha Trust Photographic study © Mucha Trust Photographic study © Mucha Trust Photographic study © Mucha Trust Photographic study © Mucha Trust Photographic study © Mucha Trust Photographic study © Mucha Trust Photographic study © Mucha Trust Photographic study © Mucha Trust Photographic study © Mucha Trust Photographic study © Mucha Trust Photographic study © Mucha Trust Photographic study © Mucha Trust Photographic study © Mucha Trust Photographic study © Mucha Trust Photographic study © Mucha Trust Photographic study © Mucha Trust Photographic study for the illustration below © Mucha Trust Illustration from 'Les Chasseurs d'Épaves' © Alphonse Mucha Estate/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris

It might come as a surprise, but it wasn't long after photography became widespread that experiments with color took place, creating vivid images which

Photo by Yousuf Karsh 34x42, Shelton Chen collection

Woodman was one of the 20th century's great surrealists.

Lady Clementina Hawarden's pictures of her daughters (including Isabella, left) from the 1860s are set to fetch £150,000 at auction. She used the entire first floor of her London home as a studio.

Antique photographs gain a new kind of lively texture in this series, entitled Dare alla Luce. Canadian photographer Amy Friend collects the prints from a

We imagine the past in black-and-white, but Mervyn O'Gorman was taking color photos using glass plates coated in potato starch in 1913. The technical name for this process is autochrome, and O'Gorman used it to take beautiful pictures of his daughter Christina wearing red in the British countryside. As the photos contain little to give their era away, they seem to be from no specific period.

Los Angeles-based portrait photographer Sue Bryce has spent decades creating contemporary fashion-inspired portraiture that makes everyday women look like Vanity Fair fashion models. And she built an international reputation using natural light almost exclusively. Recently, though, she has fallen in love with the Profoto B1.

A few months ago saw some of Stephen Shore's photography in Aesthetica Magazine. I love the captures of seemingly ordinary moments in time, the still lifes, the feel of a road trip.

When we see old black and white photos we sometimes forget the actual moments were experienced the same way we do today.

Philip Gefter on Pieter Hugo’s latest portrait series, “1994,” which features Rwandan and South African children and the ghosts of both countries' pasts.

The identity of a girl pictured in 102-year-old photos has been solved after the pictures were published on websites worldwide.

Mike Brodie's new photobook offers an unseen glimpse at his previous life as a train hopper

An accomplished photographer by the age of eight, this Bostonian visionary invented a kaleidoscopic mirror to take ‘vortographs’, took some of the most innovative images of the early 20th century – then gave it all up to focus on being a freemason

Some of the earliest photos of Victorian women have come to light in a revealing album of prints from the pioneering days of photography. The set of pictures taken by Lady Clementina Hawarden, one of Britain's first female photographers, is set to fetch £150,000 at auction.

Romanian photographer Mihaela Noroc left her job two years ago to start a new life. With nothing but a backpack and a camera, she set off to travel the world, taking hundreds of shots of women in their everyday setting. This is how her unique photo project, ’The Atlas Of Beauty’, took shape. The project so far has encompassed work in 37 countries.

How an early-twentieth-century French banker shaped your favorite Instagram filters.

We hear from Wingrove, near Aylsbury in Bucks., that a few Days ago, one Susanna Hannockes, an elderly Woman of that Place, was accused by a neighbour of being a Witch, for that she had bewi…

Thanks to the folks at The National Media Museum these amazing photographs by Mervyn O’Gorman have been getting a lot of attention lately. Taken at Dorset in 1913, these photographs of his daughter show us some wonderful versions of the Autochrome Lumière process. Autochrome Lumière was a process for colour photography invented in France in 1903, marketed in 1907 and which dominated colour photography until the mid 1930s. O'Gorman himself was an engineer with a very prevalent photography habit which has meant that many of his photographs are often included in exhibitions of early colour photography. For anyone curious about photography's history, these certainly are

I have many inspirations. One of them is Malick Sidibe. He has a body of astonishingly visual work, so full of life. Let me show you, so you, too, can be inspired......

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The Wolfgang Tillmans box set contains three of Tillmans most definitive books, released by Taschen