Ask and you shall receive: Benoit Paillé takes portrait photos of people he meets randomly.

While people have always pondered the Mona Lisa’s enigmatic smile, did da Vinci anticipate the exact degree to which it would one day be scrutinised?
This isn’t the first time scientists have deconstructed Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece. In 2000, Margaret Livingstone, a neuroscientist at Harvard Medical School with a side interest in art history, showed [...]

Two face or what? Portraits of people where a photo of one half of their face taken recently has been matched to a much older photo of themselves.

Humans and potatoes have more in common than many of us think… that’s why Ginou Choueiri uses the food staple to craft portraits of people’s faces.
I chose the potato to portray human faces because of the many striking parallels. Not only is their skin porous like ours, but their skin texture and color is very [...]

“You’re” produces a portrait of your “virtual web identity” compiled – apparently – from information garnered from social networking and photo sharing sites that you belong to.

A painting that the Cobbe family in England has owned for 300 years is “90%” likely to be a portrait of William Shakespeare according to art expert Stanley Wells, who also says we may need to alter our perception of the Bard’s looks as a result:
For many people he is the round-headed bald man seen [...]

As entries close for the 2009 Archibald Prize, arts commentator Andrew Frost paints a scathing picture of the award’s judging process.
While there are exceptions, such as last year’s winning work by Del Kathryn Barton, Frost feels the judges – trustees of the Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW) – are not “adventurous” enough when [...]

Fascinating, The Oxford Project. Residents of a small US town in Iowa are photographed 21 years apart.
In the spring and summer of 1984, Peter Feldstein used a red marker to make a sign announcing that he wanted to take free portraits of everyone in Oxford, Iowa (pop. 673). Twenty-one years later, Peter set up his [...]

The photography of Boston based Russian born Irina Rozovsky. Incredible.

Yevgeniy Fiks is a Russian born portrait artist who now lives in New York. What makes his work a little different from other artists is his subject matter, members of the US Communist Party no less.
“My intention is to inform. These paintings portray those who identify as Communists in the present-day United States. It’s about [...]