Portrait Article Assignment

Portraits are artistic images that represent a person. And although a portrait can be confused for snapshot, portraits are composed and are taken as still images whereas snapshot are to be taken "in the act of" things. Portraits can give off many ideas of emotions and moods. Portraits can also tell a little bit about the person who is shown. Often in portraits the subject is looking at the photographer or painter. But in this portrait shown here, photographer Alfred Cheney Johnston took and composed a different approach. I think this portrait shows of a timeless beauty that gives off the mood of the 1920s and the 1930s.