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Title: The American annual of photography
Year: 1914 (1910s)
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Subjects: Photography
Publisher: New York : Tennant and Ward
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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h one of them. The expressions of faces change in a moment. To catch allat the right and characteristic instant is the study of theportraitist. To personally know a subject, or to read his biography welearn much of the personality, so that we almost see himworking and thinking; to this we must add the graphic repre-sentation of form and figure, and in doing so not conceal theinspiration of each soul. Every face has the same parts, yet they vary enough in theirrelation, each with the other, that we recognise in each onea distinct face; and there is also the self to portray. In doingthis we either succeed or we fail. In a group we must remember, that each face is round,that its outline is soft and the flesh is to be represented bylight and shade. We often have new backgrounds to deal with, and all theaccessories are strange, but we must quickly arrange the facelights, before some one of the group becomes weary andbefore the portraitist loses his chance to reveal the best ofeach one. 182
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