A portrait can use:
Vertical sight lines in a portrait composition
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| Anne Hathaway by Annie Leibovitz | Annie Leibovitz by John Keatly |
Horizontal lines in a landscape

Stravinsky by Arnold Newman
Portraits can be diagonal
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| Ginger Rogers |
And then there are selfies:
