Date of Award
2012
Document Type
Honors Thesis
Department
Visual Art & Design
First Advisor
Dave Sherwin
Abstract
Richard Avedon's technique of portraiture has come to be known as "authored portraits." The intent behind every portrait Avedon created was to capture something different about the subject from how they normally portrayed themselves, something more intimate. My project follows in the footsteps of his techniques while adding ideas taken from the work of another photographer, Taryn Simon. Simon's work is always done in a series centered on a specific concept. She then combines each image with a brief explanatory text. My final exhibition of images will consist of a series of portraits of interracial couples paired with brief biographical texts.
Recommended Citation
Lemon, Jason, "Authored Portraits" (2012). Honors Theses. 47.
https://dx.doi.org/10.32597/honors/47/
https://digitalcommons.andrews.edu/honors/47
Subject Area
Interracial dating, Interracial marriage
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
DOI
https://dx.doi.org/10.32597/honors/47/
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