Photographic portraits are meant to emphasize a person’s face features, to give
an overview of how they look like and “freeze” their appearance as the years go
by. Creativity unleashed portrays not only faces and silhouettes, but also body
parts, like lips, eyes, mouths, feet and other expressive parts of the human
body. This showcase proves in 50 photos that close-up portraits can be
magnificent, can have a meaning and a strong message. They can imply which sex
they belong to, the age of the owner, social condition, mood, desires and a lot
of other things. Body parts portraits can reveal many more details than one
would be tempted to believe!
I have decided to list some examples that stood out for me.
an overview of how they look like and “freeze” their appearance as the years go
by. Creativity unleashed portrays not only faces and silhouettes, but also body
parts, like lips, eyes, mouths, feet and other expressive parts of the human
body. This showcase proves in 50 photos that close-up portraits can be
magnificent, can have a meaning and a strong message. They can imply which sex
they belong to, the age of the owner, social condition, mood, desires and a lot
of other things. Body parts portraits can reveal many more details than one
would be tempted to believe!
I have decided to list some examples that stood out for me.
Mysterious - After seeing this image, my first assumption was that the woman was muslim because she appears to have cloth covering most of her face. I also noticed that she is clearly white, as oppesed to an arabic woman, which shows the religion can spread across any race. Though the title leads me to believe the face being covered may just be for the title's sake.
Healing - The first thing I noticed about this picture was obviously the racial difference. I also wonder why the black man appears to be pulling on the other man's finger.
The Hands - This ws my favourite image out of the ones I've viewed.