Several of the most important works, notably actor portraits by Sharaku, failed to find takers.
At the same time he designed actor portraits for battledores sold by a shop called Meirindo.
Illustrator Timba Smitts' Role Models is a series of actor portraits that amalgamate their most famous roles.
The actors' portrait of a nearly dead marriage that has persisted more out of habit than out of anything else is compellingly persuasive, all the more so because the movie gives them no easy solution.
The New York Library for the Performing Arts offers a look at actors' portraits over the ages, and the Bronx Documentary Center focuses on immigration.
After taking a Kodak training course, she opened her own studio in the 1960s to do actors' portraits, wedding and passport photos.
Early on, he began to work with actors' portraits (mostly black-and-white) and film stills from the middle of the 20th century – images he culled from defunct cinemas and picture agencies that were then going out of business.
Working with found photographs – often actors' portraits and film stills taken from the golden age of cinema – Stezaker manipulates them with cuts, rotations, removals and collaged elements, managing to invigorate images that were already compelling so that nearly every work in this exhibition has a tangible seductive force.
These portrait-trait adjective pairs include the actors' portraits presented earlier paired with the trait adjectives implied by the paragraphs with which they appeared.
To watch: The New York Times' "Touch of Evil" video series, featuring the year's best actresses and actors in portraits of cinematic villainy.
In fact one series is called Marriages, and shows pairs of men and women – mostly, it seems, they are actors' studio portraits – incongruously conjoined to suggest new faces.
