For my emulation project I chose to emulate master photographer and printer Richard Avedon’s portrait photography. In his portraits Avedon puts his subjects against white backdrops. This amplifies the essence of each subject because the viewer is not also exposed to the subject’s environment. Also, Avedon manages to make each of his subjects glow in the most special way, and the backgrounds in his images a pure white, without shadows or texture. In my project I tried to capture the essence of each of my subjects the way Avedon did, so that each of my subjects could be viewed as pure beings, without the influence of their environments.
