Laura Freeman Laura Freeman

The art of seizing the moment in photographic portraiture

Phillip Prodger’s examples seem underwhelming at first; but they are infinitely more revealing than any glossy coffee-table book selection

‘Theopholus Bracket, Old Swampscott Fisherman’ by Floyd Rankins. From Face Time by Philip Prodger. [Courtesy of the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA]
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  • Face Time: A History of the Photographic Portrait

    Phillip Prodger

    Thames & Hudson, pp. 255, £30

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