In your posts you will need to discuss the journey that Portraiture has taken over its' history. For example the movement from Rich and Powerful people having expensive portraits made for them to the works of Portraiture photographers depicting the inner conflicts and catching their subjects in moments when they are least prepared.
Portraits used to be painted by artists and would have mainly been of the rich and famous. The camera was a revolution when it came to portraiture as it was quicker than a painter and could be taken in a couple of minutes instead of the couple of months that it would have taken a painter to capture an image of a person. As cameras became more and more advanced, different groups of people were able to have portraits taken of them. portraiture used to be pretty much only for the rich and famous and was now pretty much for everyone.
Portraiture had also started to give the person behind the camera more control over the person who is having the portrait taken.
Tony Vaccaro:Vaccaro is an example of a photographer who gave himself a little bit more power over his subject. however he also used the idea of the waiting for the opportune moment to take a picture of what the person was really like. For example he was asked by Pablo Picasso to take a portrait photo of him. Vaccaro stood there and watched as Picasso started making poses that he knew of instead of acting like himself in front of the camera. To get Picasso to act like himself Vaccaro pretended that the camera wasn't working, at this time Picasso stopped acting and Vaccaro had snapped the picture.
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