What is unique about Newman's portrait photography?

American photographer Arnold? Arnold Newman (1918 ~) was born in new york. Newman began to learn photography when he was a boy scout. His first teacher, Ben? Ross is a famous professional photographer in new york. At the same time, Newman also likes art. He studied painting at the University of Miami.

1938 The Great Depression prevented Newman from realizing his dream of becoming a painter and turned to photography. His artistic talent in painting has been fully used and expressed in portrait photography. 194 1 year, Newman began to take portraits of painters, writers, composers, dancers and other celebrities, which made him gain a high reputation and become a world-famous portrait photographer.

(a) environmental portraits

Newman's portrait photography is good at closely combining the characters with their surroundings, so that the background or environment is organically integrated with the subject, which becomes the best explanation of the characters' personality. This new generation portrait is called "environmental portrait" and has been highly praised.

In order to express the character's character through the environment, Newman often uses posture shooting instead of improvising snapshots. He said: the portrait chosen at random is only an accidental image for a moment, which generally lacks typicality and cannot last long.

So Newman manipulated his subjects like a director until he got a natural and stable expression. When choosing the surrounding scenery related to characters, Newman always chooses carefully to find the most typical foil. The characters in his works always appear on the screen in the working environment they are engaged in: Alfred, an arms dealer? Krupp has his back to the huge factory workshop; Painter Qiao Qiya? Okefei stood in front of her favorite painting theme-sheep's head skull: urban architect Robert? Moses has a blueprint in his hand, and behind him are the tall buildings in new york. ...

Newman's portrait photos for the painter Monterian can best reflect the creative characteristics of environmental portraits. Monterian is one of the founders of abstract painting school. He advocates using geometric shapes to express "formal beauty". His works are mostly composed of straight lines and rectangles, and he opposes using curves. Newman put mondriaan's hand on an easel with two rectangular wallpapers in the background. In this way, mondriaan seems to be embedded in mysterious and strict geometric figures, which reminds people of the style of the painter's own works. When talking about his shooting intention, Newman said that using serious straight lines and geometric figures to deal with the picture is to show the style of Monterian and his works, and to deal with him the way he deals with you.