The photograph is a simple, classic portrait, shot with very little makeup, and I think it is very beautiful".
The on-off couple can be seen languishing around a velvet sofa as Mayer strums an acoustic guitar in the black and white portrait, shot by photographer Mario Sorrenti.
While still a student, he began an extended series of portraits, shooting friends and classmates in the deliberately neutral style of passport photos or mug shots.
Many of the most affecting photographs are straightforward shoulder-length portraits shot outdoors against nocturnal backgrounds.
Made before the emergence of casual photography, these are all formal portraits, shot in a studio, often in front of painted backdrops.
At first glance, the site seems gimmicky: it accepts only photographic self-portraits shot in reflective surfaces, like mirrors and Mylar balloons.
Iconic singer Jim Morrison, keyboard-player Ray Manzarek, drummer John Densmore and guitarist Robby Krieger stare moodily out of a series of black and white and sepia portraits shot throughout the band's six year career prior to Morrison's death in 1971.
Performers behave in ways that make museum guards nervous, as video portraits, shot on-site by Brock Labrenz, convey each dancer's response to a work in the permanent collection.
In the front gallery, a striking presentation of images, including large-scale color prints and tintype portraits shot on Julien's set, further elucidates the hybrid, mediated character of contemporary historical memory—and Douglass's prescient grasp of it.
Morgan was a street preacher in Alabama and New Orleans, so it makes sense that her exquisite illumination is placed directly across from a series of street portraits shot in Harlem by Dawoud Bey.
It's perfect for portraits shot in shallow water and captures the subject and the background vividly.
