'Portraits'- Angus McBean

'Love is a stranger'- Melanie Manchot

'On the Human Being. International Photographer 1950-2000'

'Movie-star Portraits of the Forties'- John Kobal

'The Acceptable Face'- Nick Sinclair

'Photographic Portrait Prize 2006'- National Portrait Gallery

Seeing as this book is for the winners and running up during 2006 i guess this is a little out dated (?) but nevertheless interesting to see where portraiture has been, and where it's going from the past few recent years. Here's what i found worth mentioning.

Portraiture

So like i said in the prev. blog i need a concept/idea/genre/thing to start from, something i can take to as many different possibilities..as possible- so for me portraiture.

I haven't got any ideas for anything yet, and if im honest i don't particularly like portraiture (viewing or making) so im kind of taking a risk by doing this. I see it as a kind of 'easy' type of photography (am i going to regret saying that?) So it'd be fun to challenge my own opinion of the subject, im going against myself then i guess. Well in all fairness, I haven't ever done any type of portraiture before so that probably makes my opinion void. I'll see in due time.

Seeing as i don't know a great deal about portraiture i'm going to scout through a few books to see what i can find and pick up..