Topic: Portrait

Nadav Kander
Out There

Renaissance Man: Nadav Kander Rediscovers the Nude

Photographer Nadav Kander’s new show, Bodies: 6 Women, 1 Man, marries a sensitivity for powerful portraiture with an artistic appreciation for Renaissance-style art.

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Touko Hujanen
In Progress

Santa 24/7: Portrait of a Year-Round Father Christmas

LightBox presents one photographer’s story of a real-life professional Santa.

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Bernat Armangue—AP
Photo Essay

TIME Picks the Top 10 Photos of 2012

TIME presents the top 10 photographs of the year — the images that moved us most in 2012, along with the backstories from the photographers who shot the now iconic frames.

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Marco Grob for TIME
The Backstory

Still Nutty: Portraits of Jerry Lewis by Marco Grob

TIME contract photographer Marco Grob photographed 86-year-old legendary comedian Jerry Lewis as he directs a new musical version of The Nutty Professor.

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Kimiko Yoshida
Out There

Ceremonies of Disappearance: Kimiko Yoshida’s Critique of Identity

For over a decade, Kimiko Yoshida has created photos of herself in which she wears elaborate costumes that reference a wide range of subjects, from haute couture to the canon of Western painting.

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Dawoud Bey
Out There

Harlem Revisited: A New Look at Dawoud Bey’s New York Portraits

Present-day Chicago is not Harlem in 1979. Present-day Harlem isn’t even Harlem in 1979. But at the Art Institute of Chicago’s new exhibition Dawoud Bey: Harlem USA, some things have stayed the same.

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Seamus Murphy—VII
Man on the Wire

TIME Looks Back at The Best Photos… of Photos from 2011

A look into a collection of news photos of photos, where blissful instants are lost among a sea of uncertainty, and moments from the past are frozen in the present, stark in the contrast between then and now.

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Courtesy Alejandro Chaskielberg / Yossi Milo Gallery, New York
Out There

Alejandro Chaskielberg’s The High Tide

Argentinian artist Alejandro Chaskielberg recreates everyday scenes of the Paraná River Delta Region people in surrealist photographs lit by moonlight, flashlights, strobes and lanterns.

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Courtesy Viviane Sassen
Profile

In the Shadow of Viviane Sassen

Dutch photographer Viviane Sassen works along the thin line separating art and commerce.  She is dually known for her innovative fashion work in French Vogue, Purple, and POP and for her surrealist African portraiture.

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Courtesy Richard Learoyd—Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
Toolbox

Uncomfortably Close: Richard Learoyd’s, Presences

In British artist Richard Learoyd’s new portrait series Presences, his minutely detailed life-size prints bring the viewer uncomfortably close, invoking a dichotomy of intimacy and loneliness.

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