PORTRAIT IN PHOTOGRAPHY - FROM THE BEGINNING TO THE TWENTIES OF 20TH CENTURY

V diplomskem delu Portret v fotografiji – od začetka do dvajsetih let 20. stoletja spremljamo zgodovino portreta kot umetniške upodobitve ter razvoj fotografije s poudarkom na portretni fotografiji. Izum fotografije sovpada z realizmom, kar prepoznamo tudi v portretni fotografiji. Skozi čas so na fotografijo vplivale druge, že uveljavljene umetniške zvrsti in obratno. Najpogosteje navedeni orisi stilne klasifikacije fotografije ter glavni protagonisti določenega časa prikazujejo pot utiranja fotografije v umetnost. V ta namen je analiziran realističen koncept fotografije in njegova razgradnja vse do začetka modernizma, ko je fotografija pridobila avtonomnost in postala del umetniškega sveta. Prav tako so na spremembe dojemanja fotografije vplivale manipulacije, s katerimi je fotografija še hitreje pridobila umetniško veljavo. Nenazadnje je nekaj besed namenjenim tudi portretni fotografiji na Slovenskem, ki je uspešno sledila svetovnemu razvoju fotografije. The diploma paper Portrait in Photography – From the Beginning to the Twenties of the 20th Century presents the history of portrait as an artistic depiction and the development of photography with emphasis on portrait photography. The invention of photography coincides with realism, which also includes portrait photography. In the course of time, the photography was influenced by other already well established branches of art and vice versa. Most commonly cited descriptions of photography style classification and main protagonists of the given time demonstrate how photography paved its way to art. For this purpose, we conducted the analysis of the realistic concept of photography and its decomposition up to the beginning of modernism, when photography gained autonomy and became a part of the art world. The changes in the perception of photography were also influenced by manipulations, which enabled photography to quickly gain artistic value. Last but not least, a few words are dedicated to portrait photography in Slovenia, which successfully pursued the worldwide development of photography.