To My Father also includes works from another series, Defining You, hand-woven intricate images where the warp is a studio portrait and the weft is a collage of images selected from the subject's childhood photo albums—images that speak to formative experiences or simply conjure up memories they'd like to relive.
Chandoha's images are striking not only for their singular charm, but also for having established a vocabulary of the animal studio portrait with a signature look--clean, brightly colored backdrops and high-key "glamour" backlighting of the subjects.
When he was in front of the camera for the studio portrait, he was making different faces and putting on different personas, but I think that's because he knew what the cover photo needed.
| Studio portrait of Flintshire-born Second Lieutenant Frederick Birks who was awarded the Victoria Cross posthumously after his death in September 1918 aged 23 years
But compare it to the stilted girls-in-pearls studio portrait at the start of the film and you can understand why Bailey's editor Lady Clare Rendlesham (Helen McCrory) is tearing her Anna Wintour-ish bob out in frustration at this working class oik.
Despite his enormous success as a studio portrait painter, Raeburn has become internationally known for this month's Clip & Save Art Print selection, Reverend Walker Skating on Duddingston Loch.
Instead, we encounter an 1874 studio portrait of one of the Chinese cobblers, whose black and white image has been manipulated to include gold leaf on his slippers and buttons, and a "dollop of red to top the pompom on his hat." With one leg crossed, the portrait offered an identity that "was wholly fabricated ...