I suppose as it was called Portraits, I shouldn't have expected the artier stuff.... But what really surprised me and what I liked was how small some of the images were. Nancy Cunard was tiddly.
Irene Zurkinden also required plenty of 'up close and personal'. Lovely effect of the dark outline, but with strong directional light too. It made me think two things for my own photography.
a) Must print smaller sometimes, never mind all this A4 nonsense just for the sake of it. The size I choose to print is part of the creative decision-making process. I'd just forgotten that it could be sooo small. The mounts could still be 500mm x 400mm, then - what a different effect!
b) Ooh, solarisation, yummy. What does that mean for me? Having a go with more ferocious back-lighting, without totally forfeiting 'front-lighting'?
I printed my robin below (a portrait?), practically passport photo size. It made him look like a Most Wanted poster picture and it made me look at the beak-shape in a totally different way.
I suppose the teeny size makes the content more like a precious jewel.
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