portrait photography

A few days ago Gizmodo ran a piece lauding the amazing art of portrait photography. The video shows the history of portraiture and what artists say they are trying to do today, the stories they are trying to tell, the experiments they're doing and... the conversations they are having.  It's fun seeing the Egyptian stuff and all the other things you are familiar with, a review, but, maybe you'll find it more interesting than I.

I was really hoping for some pointers.

But. Somewhere along the line, maybe even in the comments there at Gizmodo, I found this little gem. A guy named Guglielmo Galvin who took an awful lot of photographs of famous people in their own environments. He says in his profile that digital pretty much ruined his career, now everybody has cameras. Too bad. You get to see what he looks like now and then and his camera and his lenses. And his gallery and his notes are amazing, if you click on those over there.