‘Coney Island, N.Y., USA’ (1993) by Rineke Dijkstra. Studies of the contemporary photographic portraiture. 

‘A prominent and distinct strand has become established in contemporary art photography in which people are depicted in uniform series, usually one per picture, and placed centrally in that picture, facing the camera head on and gazing into the lens.’

Intro from ‘What’s in a Face? The Trace of Ethnography in Contemporary Art Photography’ (2007) by Julian Stallabrass. You can find this and other essays of his here.