What is a portrait?!?!?

I need help on my school project, I have a list of photographers and it says portrait photographers. I have picked Arno Rafael Minkkien but most of his pictures are like this: http://www.arnorafaelminkkinen.org/web/c...
Would you call that a potrait?
Defination: a likeness of a person, esp. of the face, as a painting, drawing, or photograph.
Thanks for any help given. :)

So would this be more of a potrait: http://www.arnorafaelminkkinen.org/
All his pics a like this http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=arno...

Normally, a portrait would be of a person's face. Yes, Minkkien's pictures could techniqually be called "portraits" because they're of the human form, but usually the word "portrait" implies an image of the face.

A portrait is a photograph or painting that usually shows the face and neck of a person. This can be from the front, the side, or a 3/4 shot which would have the face shown turned so that you can see the front and the side.

a portrait is usually a painting like to mona lisa for example, its of her person sitting and the artist is to capture the detail of the face to make the painting like the person, i think!

A portrait is typically a head and shoulders shot of a person, and the idea is to bring out the personality of that person in their portrait.

No in you own def. it states of face. Try this link http://www.arnorafaelminkkinen.org/
it has picture of his work and just go thru them and pick out a new one.

it is a portrait in proportion but not in the sense that your teacher means.

go to
http://www.allposters.com/-sp/Marilyn-Mo...
http://www.jussipuikkonen.com/jussipuikk...
http://www.allposters.com/-sp/Pleated-Tu...
A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expression is predominant. The intent is to display the likeness, personality, and even the mood of the person. For this reason, in photography a portrait is generally not a snapshot, but a composed image of a person in a still position. A portrait often shows a person looking directly at the painter or photographer, in order to most successfully engage the subject with the viewer.

Some of the earliest portraits of people who were not kings or emperors, are the funeral portraits that survived in the dry climate of Egypt's Fayum district. These are the only paintings of the Roman period that have survived, aside from frescos.

The art of the portrait flourished in Roman sculptures, where sitters demanded realistic portraits, even unflattering ones. During the 4th century, the portrait began to retreat in favor of an idealized symbol of what that person looked like. (Compare the portraits of Roman Emperors Constantine I and Theodosius I at their entries.) In Europe true portraits of the outward appearance of individuals re-emerged in the late Middle Ages, in Burgundy and France.

One of the best-known portraits in the Western world is Leonardo da Vinci's painting titled Mona Lisa, which is a painting of an unidentified woman. The world's oldest known portrait was found in 2006 by a local pensioner, G茅rard Jourdy, in the Vilhonneur grotto near Angoul锚me and is thought to be 27,000 years old
go to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portrait
http://www.allposters.com/-st/People-B-W...
http://www.allposters.com/-st/People-Vin...
http://www.allposters.com/-sp/Little-Boy...