About This Journal
The Frame & The Figure is an independent editorial resource devoted to the craft, history, and ethics of fine-art figure, portrait, and glamour photography.
This publication exists to treat a frequently misunderstood subject with the seriousness it deserves. We write about photographing people — the light, the pose, the wardrobe, the trust — as a fine art with a long and dignified lineage. Everything here is editorial and educational. We publish no explicit imagery and hold to a simple standard: nothing on these pages would be out of place in a mainstream photography magazine or on a museum wall.
Independence
This journal is an independent editorial resource. It is not affiliated with photographer John Running or his estate and reproduces none of his photographs.
Editorial standards
- Tasteful by policy. Sensual in subject, never explicit in execution — no nudity, no adult content.
- Consent first. Every practice we describe rests on the ethics of consent and the dignity of the subject.
- Craft over sensation. We are interested in how good pictures are made, and in the history that made them possible.
On our sources
Where this journal points beyond itself, it points to primary authorities — the collections of major museums, the standards of professional photographic bodies, and the published record of the medium's history. We name photographers and institutions in the ordinary editorial way that any art publication does, for education and context, and we reproduce no one's photographs.