Arnold Newman‘s portraits

Arnold Newman was a American Photographer who is famous on portrait photography.Not just depending on the subjects theirselves, Arnold is good at combining the subject and the background to exhibit their characteristics.Most of his portraits are about the artists or politicians.
Igor Stravinsky, composer, pianist, and conductor
Aaron Copland, composer, composition teacher, writer, and conductor
Jackson Pollock, painter
Isamu Noguchi, artist, and landscape architect
Joseph Albers, artist
Salvador Dalí, painter

In these portraits, Arnold combines the subject and their most typical elements, such as their works, work environments or equipments.So through his photos we can easily get more informations about the subjects.

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