5 Portrait Photographers of the Famous

Federico Alegría
4 min readDec 30, 2019
Self-portrait by Philippe Halsman

It is understood that a portrait is a representation of a person’s character; that’s why the most efficient way to accomplish this task is by capturing an image of the person’s face.

Photography had much to do with the production of portraits because its approach to reality surpassed painting in terms of immediacy and detail. Someone could achieve hyper-realistic results for sure, but the subject…

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