Portraiture

Portraiture is very different from photojournalism because it is staged most of the time.

Diane Arbus:

Diane Arbus was known for taking black and white photographs of deviant people ( Circus Performers, Dwarfs) or peoples who's normality seemed ugly or surreal.

She first started out as a fashion photographer with her husband, even getting pictures published in magazines such as 'Vogue' but in the late 1950's she began focusing on her own photography. She began taking photographs of people she found while wandering around New York. Arbus believed that a camera could be “a little bit cold, a little bit harsh” but its scrutiny revealed the truth; the difference between what people wanted others to see and what they really did see.

One of the most known photo shoots she has done is for a wealthy families Christmas and she captured images of the family that were not what the parents has expected, she captured their daughter looking very dull and glum.

 

Diane Arbus' style of photo journalism is very similar to that of Tony Vacarro because of how natural she liked her pictures to be, she never wanted anyone to pose in her pictures instead she wanted to capture the true emotions of her subject which can be seen in the picture above. Her telling the family to pose reminds me of Tony Vacarro pretending his camera was broken so that he could take a natural picture of Picasso.