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  Tseng Kwong Chi: East Meets West, Self-portrait series   LINK Diane Arbus http://www.artnet.com/artists/diane-arbus/ Margaret Lansink https://margaretlansink.com/ Ken Kitano https://mem-inc.jp/artists_e/kitano_e/ Robert Mapplethorpe https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/robert-mapplethorpe-11413/photographs-robert-mapplethorpe Robert Heinecken https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/1384?installation_image_index=2 Sally Mann https://www.sallymann.com/ Nancy Wilson-Pajic https://kochgallery.com/artists/nancy-wilson-pajic/ Pavel Banka https://pavelbanka.com/ Sakiko Nomura https://www.artsy.net/artist/sakiko-nomura
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Portraiture in Contemporary Art

David Hockney.  Gregory in Golf Cap ,  1976 Edward Hopper.  Morning In a city, 1944 Gregory Crewdson, Woman at Sink, 2013 Rong Rong & Inri.  In Fujisan, Japan, 2001 Vik Muniz.  Che (black beans), After Alberto Korda, 2000 Linder.  Sans Titre, 1979 Ron Mueck, A Girl, 2006 Lucian Freud. Self Portrait, 1985 Marc Quinn.  Self, 1991 Adam Fuss.  Untitled, 2011 Andy Warhol.  Triple Elvis, 1963 Helmut Newton, Angelina Jolie, 1998 Catherine Opie, Self-Portrait/Cutting, 1993 Loretta Lux, The Fish, 2003 Andres Serrano, Untitled III, 2015 Atta Kim, 100 Countries/100 Men, 2004 Daniel Lee, Origin, 1999 LINK Magdalena Abakanowicz, Agora, 2005-2006 (Grant Park, Chicago) Discussion Question: What makes a good portrait? Share your thought in class next week Tuesday Feb 14.

How to write captions for your photographs

Caption/Narrative Caption is an important part of journalism and documentary photography.  Captions must be accurate and informative. In fact, most readers tend to look at the photos, and then the captions, in a story before they decide whether they want to read the story itself.  Use the following points to help write a caption that will intrigue the reader enough to read the story. http://www.nwscholasticpress.org/how-to-write-a-compelling-article-that-gets-the-readers-attention/ https://www.dailywritingtips.com/10-tips-about-how-to-write-a-caption/ https://ijnet.org/en/resource/writing-photo-captions Tips • The photo and the caption should complement each other. Together they should tell the story. They should avoid repeating each other. A caption should help explain the what, when, and where. But the photo should provoke an emotional reaction. • The newspaper industry called captions, “cutlines." • National Geographic photo captions are great examp