The Interest Of Portrait Photography

Portrait photography is the photo capture of an individual or group of people with

the primary objective of displaying the likeness, personality and mood of the individual or individuals. Most portraits are not intended for public display and depict ordinary persons instead of professional models. Portraits are standard possessions of families now.

Portraits generally focus on the face of the person although the entire body or background is sometimes included. The portrayed commonly looks directly at the camera but several portraits have them looking off to the side or feature two individuals looking at each other instead of the camera. Portraits regularly honor special events like weddings and graduations and many homes have professional family portraits hanging on their walls too. So, when and where did portrait photography actually start?

The Development and Popularization of Portrait Photography

Portrait photography first gained its recognition in the mid of the 19th century with the invention of the daguerreotype, developed by Louis Daguerre. Even though it was not the first photographic process created, it required much shorter exposure times compared to previously available processes.

This made the daguerreotype the first commercially practical process with the ability to permanently record and fix an image with an exposure time well-suited for portrait photography. By 1840 daguerreotype studios would be found around the United States and Europe, bringing portrait photography to an astonished middle-class. Many of these studios produced over 500 portrait plates on a daily basis.

Regrettably, the daguerreotype was not perfect for copying because it was a direct photographic process where the image was directly exposed onto a mirror-polished surface. Further advancements in portrait photography took place in 1851, when Fredrick Scott Archer developed the collodion or wet-plate process. The collodion produced sharper pictures since the negatives were made of smooth glass, which was stronger as compared to paper. This allowed for a lot more paper prints to be created from one negative.

In 1854, the United States was coming to the ambrotype, a glass negative that was backed with black material allowing it to be considered as a positive. The ambrotype was offered to the same portrait studios that utilized the daduerreptype, but at a lower price. Two years later, the tintype was patented that used iron plates instead of glass.

It was quite a lot less expensive than the ambrotype and soon became the most easily available form is used for location portrait photography. Tintype portrait photographers mainly photographed Union solders and pioneer families, generally working from the back of horse-drawn wagons. Modern portrait photography owes everything to the inventors and founding photographers who started all of it.

by: Lauren Elliandrica

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