With our lighting demo in mind for this Tuesday, I wanted to mention artist, Nora Herting. She has done a couple of portrait projects which utilize the tropes of the contemporary studio portrait. The image here is from her "Free Sitting" series. In her own words:
The subjects of my photographs are not the individuals depicted but the construction of the portrait itself. The studio portrait has a very structured set of parameters that form a stylistic equation. We are so familiar with it that we are blind to its constructs. I violate these codes in effort to bring them to the viewer's attention. By breaking the rules of the studio portrait, my portraits no longer fulfill their role as social symbols.
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