Examples include Julia Margaret Cameron's soft - focused and reverential Herbert Wilson (1868), which helped to
move photographic portraiture from pure documentation to artistic intention; and Edward Curtis's field - printed cyanotype of an American Indian (c.1900 - 1930), which also shows how early photographers checked the quality of their images before digital photography.
This talk will discuss how
photographic technology and changing aesthetics influenced the evolution of
photographic portraiture in the 20th Century —
moving from the formal studio portrait, to on - location and finally to the more casual snapshot.