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lady monk © Abul Kalam Azad / 20''x 20'' pigment print/ silver bromide 1991 |
social portrait
painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expression is predominant. The intent is to display the likeness, personality, and even the mood of the person. For this reason, in photography a portrait is generally not a snapshot, but a composed image of a person in a still position. A portrait often shows a person looking directly at the painter or photographer, in order to most successfully engage the subject with the viewer.Some of the earliest surviving painted portraits of people, who were not kings or emperors, are the funeral portraits that survived in the dry climate of Egypt's Fayum district Since the dawn of photography, people have made portraits. The popularity of the daguerreotype in the middle of the 19th century was due in large part to the demand for inexpensive portraiture. Studios sprang up in cities around the world, some cranking out more than 500 plates a day. The style of these early works reflected the technical challenges associated with 30-second exposure times and the painterly aesthetic of the time. Subjects were generally seated against plain backgrounds and lit with the soft light of an overhead window and whatever else could be reflected with mirrors. photography © Abul Kalam Azad / 20''x 20'' pigment print/ silver bromide 1980-2013
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young shop keeper © Abul Kalam Azad / 20''x 20'' pigment print/ silver bromide 1990
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fashon star © Abul Kalam Azad / 20''x 20'' pigment print/ silver bromide 1992 |
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julie tomas © Abul Kalam Azad / 20''x 20'' pigment print/ silver bromide 1994 |
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man from kashmir © Abul Kalam Azad / 20''x 20'' pigment print/ silver bromide 1992 |
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abha bahan © Abul Kalam Azad / 20''x 20'' pigment print/ silver bromide 1992 |
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anand © Abul Kalam Azad / 20''x 20'' pigment print/ silver bromide 1996 |
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bismilla khan © Abul Kalam Azad / 20''x 20'' pigment print/ silver bromide 1993 |
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n.s madhavan © Abul Kalam Azad / 20''x 20'' pigment print/ silver bromide 1993 |
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e.p unny © Abul Kalam Azad / 20''x 20'' pigment print/ silver bromide 1988 |
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mahima rahman © Abul Kalam Azad / 20''x 20'' pigment print/ silver bromide 1994 |
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o.v vijayan © Abul Kalam Azad / 20''x 20'' pigment print/ silver bromide 1992 |
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adoor gopalakrishnan © Abul Kalam Azad / 20''x 20'' pigment print/ silver bromide 1993 |
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m.mukundan © Abul Kalam Azad / 20''x 20'' pigment print/ silver bromide 1994 |
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chacha © Abul Kalam Azad / 20''x 20'' pigment print/ silver bromide 1995 |
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jose © Abul Kalam Azad / 20''x 20'' pigment print/ silver bromide 1995
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a.ayyappan © Abul Kalam Azad / 20''x 20'' pigment print/ silver bromide 2001 |
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g.shahid © Abul Kalam Azad / 20''x 20'' pigment print/ silver bromide 2013 |
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com.surjeet sing© Abul Kalam Azad / 20''x 20'' pigment print/ silver bromide 1995 |
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metro ashraff © Abul Kalam Azad / 20''x 20'' pigment print/ silver bromide 1991 |
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v.g abhimanu © Abul Kalam Azad / 20''x 20'' pigment print/ silver bromide 1991 |
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konangi © Abul Kalam Azad / 20''x 20'' pigment print/ silver bromide 2001 |
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haneef rahman © Abul Kalam Azad / 20''x 20'' pigment print/ silver bromide 1981 |
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yamini krishna murthy © Abul Kalam Azad / 20''x 20'' pigment print/ silver bromide 1985 |
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vaikom chandra shekaran nair © Abul Kalam Azad / 20''x 20'' pigment print/ silver bromide 1983 |
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two nuns © Abul Kalam Azad / 20''x 20'' pigment print/ silver bromide 1999 |
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emma burk-gaffiny © Abul Kalam Azad / 20''x 20'' pigment print/ silver bromide 2000 |
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r.nandakumar © Abul Kalam Azad / 20''x 20'' pigment print/ silver bromide 2010 |
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mimi © Abul Kalam Azad / 20''x 20'' pigment print/ silver bromide 1999 |
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pappa lal © Abul Kalam Azad / 20''x 20'' pigment print/ silver bromide 1988 |
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tsl nadar © Abul Kalam Azad / 20''x 20'' pigment print/ silver bromide 2012 |
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folco naither © Abul Kalam Azad / 20''x 20'' pigment print/ silver bromide 1997 |
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anil dayanand © Abul Kalam Azad / 20''x 20'' pigment print/ silver bromide 2010 |
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fanco © Abul Kalam Azad / 20''x 20'' pigment print/ silver bromide 2010 |
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big lips © Abul Kalam Azad / 20''x 20'' pigment print/ silver bromide 2011 |
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s.k pottakade © Abul Kalam Azad / 20''x 20'' pigment print/ silver bromide 2011 |
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pream naseer © Abul Kalam Azad / 20''x 20'' pigment print/ silver bromide 2011 |
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