Best face forward: some thoughts on the portrait photograph

Abstract

Gerry Badger, the renowned photographer and author of award-winning books, offers extraordinary insights into the evolution and significance of portrait photography. This compelling publication presents famous works by widely recognised photographers alongside lesser-known but no less superb images by unsung artists. Together with Badger's unique insights, these photographs reference and complement each other in an ongoing conversation about the history, perspectives, and concerns of portrait photography. Including a variety of mediums, from calotype and collage to palladium and inkjet prints, this volume is a marvellously enlightening masterclass on photographic portraiture, as well as a unique and valuable reference work.

Contents

Preface -- Best face forward: the rise and rise of the photographic portrait -- Portraits. Hippolyte Bayard -- Sunil Gupta -- Andres Serrano -- Wilhelm Brasse, Marina Amaral -- Alexander Gardner -- Fulton County Sheriff's Office -- Guillaume-Benjamin-Armand Duchenne De Boulogne -- William H. Bell -- Hugh Welch Diamond -- John Lamprey -- Yee I-Lann -- Samuel J. Miller -- Maud Sulter -- Onésipe Aguado de las Marismas -- Linda Benedict-Jones -- John Coplans -- Claude Cahun/Marcel Moore -- Tomasz Machciński -- Lee Miller -- Cindy Sherman -- Nicoletta Deva Tortone -- Pierre-Louis Pierson -- David Octavius Hill, Robert Adamson -- Nadar -- Henri Cartier-Bresson -- Judith Golden -- Richard Avedon -- Julia Margaret Cameron -- Alfred Stieglitz -- René Groebli -- Paul Strand -- Bruce Gilden -- Dougie Wallace -- Khalik Allah -- Edward S. Curtis -- Pieter Hugo -- David Parker -- Manuel Álvarez Bravo -- August Sander -- Val Wilmer -- Alec Soth -- Francesco Neri -- Dorothea Lange -- Thilde Jensen -- Susan Lipper -- Photographer unknown (presumably Goffredo Lenzi) -- Photographer unknown -- Jason Wilde -- Grace Lau -- Diane Arbus -- John Gossage -- Judith Joy Ross -- E.J. Bellocq -- Katharina Behrend -- Susan Meiselas -- Viviane Sassen -- Lisetta Carmi -- Sara Davidmann -- Josephine Kuuire -- Omar Victor Diop -- Jon Henry -- Joy Gregory -- Rosy Martin/Verity Welstead -- Walker Evans -- Helen Levitt -- Betsy Karel -- Joel Meyerowitz -- Nigel Grierson -- Eugène Atget -- Markéta Luskačová -- Joan Colom -- David Barton -- Robert Adams -- Brassaï -- Robert Frank -- Nick Waplington -- Anders Petersen -- Tom Hunter -- Laura El-Tantawy -- Marco Delogu -- Martin Parr -- Chris Killip -- Ken Grant -- Neil Kenlock -- Hannah Starkey -- Valerie Phillips -- Siân Davey -- Dawoud Bey -- Elaine Constantine -- Paddy Summerfield -- Paul Graham -- Verónica Fieiras -- Sonia Lenzi -- Bill Jacobson.