1. Portrait Photography What makes an appealing photo of a person or people?

2. Subject Matter: Familiar vs. Unfamiliar Normal vs. Exotic

3. Alfred Stieglitz – O’Keeffe 34, 1922

4. Alfred Stieglitz – O’Keeffe, 1918

5. Diane Arbus – A young man at home with curlers on west 20th street, NYC, 1966.

6. Diane Arbus – Mexican dwarf in his hotel room in NYC, 1970.

7. Diane Arbus – Puerto Rican woman with birth mark, 1966.

8. Composition: How is the subject arranged?

9. Roy Decarava – Picket, Downstate Demonstration, 1963.

10. Roy Decarava – Woman Smiling, 1963.

11. Ralph Meatyard – Hands, 1958-60.

12. Setting: Candid vs. posed

13. Roy Decarava – Coltrane on Soprano, 1963.

14. Robert Doisneau – Kiss, 1950.

15. Lee Friedlander – New York, 1963.

16. Lee Friedlander – Richard Benson, 1984.

17. Lee Friedlander – Sweet Emma Barrett, New Orleans, 1958.

18. Dorothea Lange – Migrant Mother, 1936.

19. Camera Placement: Close-up vs. Distant

20. Newman – General Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1950.

21. Newman – Woody Allen, NYC, 1996.

22. Lothar Wolleh – Josef Beuys, Stockholm, 1971.

23. Lothar Wolleh – Patriarch of Constinople.

24. Lighting: Natural vs. Staged

25. Lothar Wolleh – Woman, 1966.

26. Roy Decarava – Romare Bearden, 1951.

27. Dorothea Lange – Migratory Cotton Picker, 1940.

28. Sally Mann – Candy Cigarette.