A panorama portrait in
photography
Photography is the art, application, and practice of creating durable images by recording light, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film. It is employed ...
and
painting
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and ...
is the use of
panoramic photography
Panoramic photography is a technique of photography, using specialized equipment or software, that captures images with horizontally elongated fields of view. It is sometimes known as ''wide format photography''. The term has also been applied to ...
or imaging to convey a
portrait
A portrait is a portrait painting, painting, portrait photography, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expressions are predominant. The intent is to display the likeness, Personality type ...
of a person. It intends to be a bi-dimensional record of a 3D reality (experiences and events related to the subject) where the whole environment is emphasized and captured.
Panoramic photography is mostly used on
landscape
A landscape is the visible features of an area of land, its landforms, and how they integrate with natural or man-made features, often considered in terms of their aesthetic appeal.''New Oxford American Dictionary''. A landscape includes the ...
s and architecture. The approach to panorama portraits arose from a desire to depict the whole surroundings of the artist and the subject. Examples of 16th century paintings that use perspective to wholly depict an environment include ''The Burial of the Count of Orgaz'' by
El Greco
Domḗnikos Theotokópoulos ( el, Δομήνικος Θεοτοκόπουλος ; 1 October 1541 7 April 1614), most widely known as El Greco ("The Greek"), was a Greek painter, sculptor and architect of the Spanish Renaissance. "El G ...
and Self-portrait in a convex Mirror by
The Parmigianino.
M. C. Escher
Maurits Cornelis Escher (; 17 June 1898 – 27 March 1972) was a Dutch graphic artist who made mathematically inspired woodcuts, lithographs, and mezzotints.
Despite wide popular interest, Escher was for most of his life neglected in t ...
is also famous for his distorted or impossible perspectives, notably his
Fisheye Lens
A fisheye lens is an ultra wide-angle lens that produces strong visual distortion intended to create a wide panoramic or hemispherical image. Fisheye lenses achieve extremely wide angles of view, well beyond any rectilinear lens. Instead of pr ...
Portraits
A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expressions are predominant. The intent is to display the likeness, personality, and even the mood of the person. For this re ...
and
Curvilinear Perspectives.
Information
Image-stitching is often used in mobile device panoramic captures, as well as surveillance systems. Building an image in segments allows artists to record time-based changes in a scene. An example is the work of the artist Michael Silvers, exhibited in the Bronx Latin American Art Biennial in New York in 2008.
Another completely different approach to panorama portrait is the Wraparound Face Texture Map,
used commonly by 3D artists to provide a realistic texture and elements to be placed on 3D face models to create a highly realistic 3D virtual head.
References
External links
Charleston Art GalleryPersonal Artworks Website"Workspaces" - a series of panorama-portraits by Mark-Steffen Goewecke
Portrait art
Panorama photography
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