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Techniques
Portraiture is about capturing the truth in a single frame. Diane Arbus photoed people showing there true emotions when people are having there photo taken for example, being bored, frustrated, not really smiling, pretending to want to have your picture taken etc.
She would always talk to the person who she was photographing really quietly, almost whispering, and then the people around the scene of the photo being taken would all move closer in to try and hear what she was saying, almost sucking everyone into her work.
Diane Arbus got asked by a rich family to do a professional photo shoot for them so that they would have some good family photos, but people were surprised that she had been chosen to do them, as her pictures were not normally "family photos", her photographs were normally very unique. The family realised that she was very keen to take pictures of a certain family member, the daughter. She liked taking pictures of this certain family member because she showed her true emotions in the photo.
people often thought that she never actually got the kind of photos she wanted, and when she committed suicide, people often said that she had died not having the picture she always wanted.
Tony Vaccaro, when taking photography, he only cared about his own opinions, no one else's. He was always on guard of the form of placing of the photograph, and he forgot about peoples appearance in the photograph.
He realised that the picture doesn't always tell you the story behind the photo, for example, the audience doesn't really know whats going on in the picture or who the people are or hat there lives are about.
The camera had a lens at the side of the camera so that when taking a picture, you could look through the lens with one eye, and see the rest of the world with the other eye.
