Best face forward: some thoughts on the portrait photograph

Preface

Best face forward: the rise and rise of the photographic portrait

Portraits. Hippolyte Bayard

Sunil Gupta

Andres Serrano

Wilhelm Brasse, Marina Amaral

Alexander Gardner

Fulton County Sheriff's Office

Guillaume-Benjamin-Armand Duchenne De Boulogne

William H. Bell

Hugh Welch Diamond

John Lamprey

Yee I-Lann

Samuel J. Miller

Maud Sulter

Onésipe Aguado de las Marismas

Linda Benedict-Jones

John Coplans

Claude Cahun/Marcel Moore

Tomasz Machciński

Lee Miller

Cindy Sherman

Nicoletta Deva Tortone

Pierre-Louis Pierson

David Octavius Hill, Robert Adamson

Nadar

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Judith Golden

Richard Avedon

Julia Margaret Cameron

Alfred Stieglitz

René Groebli

Paul Strand

Bruce Gilden

Dougie Wallace

Khalik Allah

Edward S. Curtis

Pieter Hugo

David Parker

Manuel Álvarez Bravo

August Sander

Val Wilmer

Alec Soth

Francesco Neri

Dorothea Lange

Thilde Jensen

Susan Lipper

Photographer unknown (presumably Goffredo Lenzi)

Photographer unknown

Jason Wilde

Grace Lau

Diane Arbus

John Gossage

Judith Joy Ross

E.J. Bellocq

Katharina Behrend

Susan Meiselas

Viviane Sassen

Lisetta Carmi

Sara Davidmann

Josephine Kuuire

Omar Victor Diop

Jon Henry

Joy Gregory

Rosy Martin/Verity Welstead

Walker Evans

Helen Levitt

Betsy Karel

Joel Meyerowitz

Nigel Grierson

Eugène Atget

Markéta Luskačová

Joan Colom

David Barton

Robert Adams

Brassaï

Robert Frank

Nick Waplington

Anders Petersen

Tom Hunter

Laura El-Tantawy

Marco Delogu

Martin Parr

Chris Killip

Ken Grant

Neil Kenlock

Hannah Starkey

Valerie Phillips

Siân Davey

Dawoud Bey

Elaine Constantine

Paddy Summerfield

Paul Graham

Verónica Fieiras

Sonia Lenzi

Bill Jacobson.