Mary Ellen Mark

I don't like gimmicky pictures; I've always hated them. I like pictures that are very clear and clean, whether you're a great street photographer - somebody like Friedlander or Winogrand or Cartier-Bresson - or whether you're a portraitist, like Irving Penn.

American Photographer

Michael Wolff

I am in the representational business, a portraitist. I have tried to walk an amused line amid hyperbole, documentary detail, cruel characterisation, occasional affection, some good punchlines and anthropological social insight. It's been a good living.

American Author

David Hockney

I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century.

English Artist

Indicates specialization in creating visual likenesses of individuals, often capturing personality.

Artistic Focus

Use 'portraitist' when referring to an artist who specifically depicts human beings, not animals or landscapes.

Human Subjects

'Portraitist' typically refers to traditional artistic mediums, different from a photographer.

Not Photography

 and the whole world is flying by. At a certain point, I figured out that what I was doing was making portraits. When you think about portraiture, you tend to think about stuff like this. The guy on the left is named Gilbert Stuart. He's sort of the first real portraitist of the United States.

Insightful human...

 John's shot straight down so these are the shadows of the camels this is a rancher in Texas by William Albert Allard a great portraitist