PORTRAIT TYPOLOGIES IN THE ART OF PHOTOGRAPHY

Abstract

This article titledPortraitTypologies in Photography Artaims to bring together typological portrait studies created with photographic portraits from the nineteenth century to the present. For this purpose, photographic works, in which portraits are brought together comprehensively, are covered in this article. The use of photography, which is used to record social, scientific, and artistic activities, by many disciplines from anthropology to zoology, medicine to botany, for documentation and visual data creation reveals the importance of the subject. The data about typological portraits in the art of photography were reached within the framework of a literature review and these studies were analysed using the content analysis method. The works of Dr. Hugh Welch Diamond, Guillaume Duchenne de Boulogne, Francis Galton, and Alphonse Bertillon are important in terms of subject as the first typological examples in the nineteenth century leading portrait typologies. The typologies of August Sander and Walker Evans in portrait typology are remarkable studies in twentieth century photography art. And, in portrait typologies in contemporary photography, artists such as Boris Mikhailov, Taryn Simon, JR, Martin Schoeller, and Angelica Dass have brought a different perspective to the concepts of individual and identity by applying the typology method to portrait photography. The expression method, typological grouping, style of expression, and content of the meaning that artists attribute to the portraits in their typological portrait works are analysed and interpreted in terms of technical approach. The typological portraits in the text are discussed and evaluated chronologically.