The exhibition, titled Painting and Photography, comprises portraits of people sitting in the same chair, in the same studio, set against sky-blue walls.
Perhaps half the book comprises the portraits in various media, and perhaps half the rest a forbiddingly technical discussion of how Vollmann created them — it is, in part, an ode to the gum bichromate process of printing color photography.
Pierre Joseph Rossier (16 July 1829 – between 1883 and 1898) was a pioneering Swiss photographer whose albumen photographs, which include stereographs and cartes-de-visite, comprise portraits, cityscapes, and landscapes.
During the 1860s and 1870s, he produced a number of stereographs and cartes-de-visite comprising portraits and views of Fribourg, Einsiedeln and other places in Switzerland.
Each portrait comprises hundreds of images captured at close range which are then stitched together, producing striking perspectives and a 3D effect.
Memory is difficult to visualize, but Kunishi's images — comprised of portraits of both Sandinistas and Contras, artifacts relevant to their war, and stunning landscapes that hide the scars of battle — begin to tell the story.
Comprising photographic portraits from the John Kobal Foundation, the exhibition featured vintage prints from 1920 to 1960 of some of Hollywood's greatest stars, including Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Jane Russell, Humphrey Bogart, and Marlon Brando, as well as Taylor, whom many regarded as the last major star to emerge from the old Hollywood studio system.
We've paired the text with photos from artist Nina Berman's Purple Hearts series, which is comprised of portraits and interviews with American soldiers who were seriously wounded in the Iraq War, focusing on their struggle to find identity and purpose after returning home.
The collection of the National Portrait Gallery comprises some 10,000 portraits in a variety of media: paintings, drawings, medallions, sculptures, photographs, motion pictures, and video recordings.
The latter comprises over 200 portraits of black lesbians and transgender men alongside often visceral video and audio testimonies of the hate crimes and violence, including so-called corrective rapes, directed against them.
