Whilst looking for information about photographers who were known for their typolgical portraits I came across the work 445 Portraits of a Man. The work was first displayed at the Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Jersey as part of their exhibition Striking Resemblance: The Changing Art of Portraiture in 2014, and consisted of 445 silver gelatin 3 x 2.4 inch photographs of a man taken over an estimated 20 – 30 year period. The man in the photographs was Franklyn Swantek, not a photographer but the owner of Swantek Photo Service, which proclaimed itself as “Michigan’s largest operators and … Continue reading Typological portraits