Portraits and Self-Portraits

Self-portrait:

I think this is one of the most powerful self-portrait, if not THE ONE, because all the repetition of his face in different squares gives him the opportunity to pose and taking many pictures in just one.
I really like the idea of "copying" the Beatles's album cover and I think he did a great job.

Portrait:

This is one of my favorite portraits because is very efficient and simple.
It gives perfectly the IDEA of a portrait because only their upper body is in the picture.
The crossed arms are very artistic.
I like the picture because the black on the background mixes with the black of the dude's t-shirts and so their face and their crossed arms look like a skull and crossbones.





I really like the Portrait style because I will be more free to capture more persons in one picture and it is helpful because I can come up with more ideas.
I would like to emulate Seliger's feature to put in contrast the subject with the background as in the picture above.