Monica and Sanya, the lovely girls from Wexford Ireland.....

Portraiture - Everyone is a model - Fashion & Glamour Photography Styles Portrait.

Everyone wants to be photographed like a model, the blurring of fashion and now glamour photography into more mainstream portraiture, means that more and more people are having portraits taken this way. In the late seventies boudoir photography became very fashionable with the thirty something’s wanting to capture both their youth and sex appeal in a photographic portrait. The boudoir style then like all fashions took a dip in polarity and by the late eighties or early nineties, depending on which part of the globe you live, became somewhat of a cliché . In contrast by the nineties chic fashion had found it’s way in to more everyday portraiture along with the whole lifestyle look but whereas this was glitzy some still wanted things to be more sexy, resulting in a more glamorous approach to such photography which has continued until the present day along with re-emergency of the boudoir style a few years ago. So today’s female portraiture is heavily influenced by fashion and glamour styles along a more racy re invented boudoir look , so everyone wants to look like a model including a make over before the shoot, and further make over digitally after it. What of future trends … ? The alternative look now being made fashionable in the media and immortalised in films like “The Matrix” are starting to become more mainstream at which point the term “alternative” also becomes redundant of cause. This look has for some time been finding it’s way into portraiture in the form of piercing, tattoos and pvc clothing, being the way some create their own individuality yet a some future point this may actually become the next fashion if it is not already.
Marc Byram