Environmental portraits are photographs used to capture a subject in their everyday workplace or home. It highlights the subjects surroundings and life style in a very direct way.

Environmental portraits can give the subject an ambiguous private identity but will give a simple notion towards the subjects work identity.

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Arnold Newman

Arnold Newman makes use of shadows to create a 50/50 split of light and dark.

Some of his work is quite flat and bleak and the only dimension is the shadows on the people in the photograph.

In this image Arnold Newman creates an idea surrounding Agnes de Milles’ choreographing and dancing career by blurring people in the background which gives motion to the image.

Additionally, a lot of his environmental portraits use lines to add dimension and shapes to the photograph.