Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - Photography and portraiture - Excuse me, what kind of photography is realistic photography that only takes people's heads?

Excuse me, what kind of photography is realistic photography that only takes people's heads?

It can be called portrait photography, but although portrait photography is more about shooting the head and face, it can also include shooting the whole body or bust of the character.

Origin: Portrait photography began in 1836, a convenient Daguerre photography method, which is to cover a copper plate with a silver plate for imaging, so it is called the "permanent mirror" of the nobility. 1854, photographer Andre Disdry registered a patent for taking eight small photos at a time, and made a business card with this cheap portrait, which made the portrait popular. With the continuous development of portrait photography, if analyzed from the photographer's point of view, it can be roughly divided into two major veins, one is subjective portrait photography, and the other is objective portrait photography. Subjective portrait photographers usually induce the subjects to produce the expressions they want to capture; Objective portrait photographers let the audience figure out the subject's image by themselves. Later, photographers found that bigger photos and big heads were more attractive to customers. So London's photojournalism weekly predicted in 1880 that the head portrait would replace the full-length portrait. Later development gradually confirmed this judgment.

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