Portrait photography

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What Wikipedia says

Portrait photography, or portraiture, is a type of photography aimed toward capturing the personality of a person or group of people by using effective lighting, backdrops, and poses. A portrait photograph may be artistic or clinical.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Portrait photography”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: A.H. Wheeler, photographer, Berlin, Wis., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.