What is Portrait Photography? (Precisely)

<p>The other day&nbsp;</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/u/382f8a99fb2d?source=post_page-----6beccd357f4c--------------------------------" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Josh Rose</a></p> <p>&nbsp;posted a marvelous story entitled&nbsp;<a href="https://joshrose.medium.com/unlearning-your-way-to-more-interesting-portraits-f0d26c4ba66" rel="noopener">Unlearning Your Way To More Interesting Portraits</a>&nbsp;<em>(3 Things To Stop Worrying So Much About)</em>. He makes much sense plus offers powerful examples of his work. I wrote a frankly gushing response. I was jealous. I even admitted it.</p> <p>Josh got me thinking. I used to be a portrait man. I had a little butter-and-egg studio, and I shot gazillions of &ldquo;portraits.&rdquo;</p> <p>But the portraits I made were the most boring, cookie-cutter, mundane examples of the &ldquo;art&rdquo; because I had been trained as a commercial photographer by men whose experience went back to Omaha Beach in Normandy in 1944 when I was two whole years old. Let us be charitable and say that 30 years on, cutting edge they were not.</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/counterarts/what-precisely-is-portrait-photography-6beccd357f4c"><strong>Click Here</strong></a></p>