Explore portrait photography's use of light and shadow with Teaching Artist Gustavo Garcia.

Artworks in Focus: A Beale Street Belle, date unknown by Louis Fleckenstein

Rural Field Worker, New England, 1915 by Lewis Wickes Hine

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Further Resources for this lesson

Louis Fleckenstein biography

Lewis Wickes Hine biography

The Art of Portrait Photography - PBS video short