RON HENGGELER

April 26, 2024
Faces of San Francisco - Part 1 

I’ve been photographing in San Francisco and the Bay Area for 47 years. I have a photo library holding many thousands of pictures. Some of my favorite photos are the portraits I’ve made.

For the past two weeks, I've been revisiting my photo collections to select only portraits that I am then editing and posting on Instagram as reels paired with classical music. Here are some of the portraits that were chosen.

The full collection of these portraits in seven parts with music can be viewed here:

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Chiaroscuro is an Italian term which literally means ‘light-dark’. In paintings and photos, the description refers to clear tonal contrasts which are often used to suggest the volume and modeling of the subjects depicted.

In a portrait, you always leave part of yourself behind.

Mary Ellen Mark

The portrait of a person is one of the most difficult things to do. It means you must almost bring the presence of that person photographed to other people in such a way that they don't have to know that person personally, but that they are still confronted with a human being that they won't forget. That's a portrait.

Paul Strand

I take photographs with love, so I try to make them art objects. But I make them for myself first and foremost - that is important.                    

Jacques Henri-Lartigue

Portraits are the most intimate photographs. The image will survive the subject.

Victor Skrebneski

My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.  Richard Avedon

A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed

Richard Avedon

When you are doing portraits, you have that intimacy with someone for a few minutes. For a really good portrait, you don't take the portrait - it's given.

Giles Duley

Everything is a self-portrait. Everything is a diary. 

Chuck Palahniuk