It begins with photography inportraiture, proceeding to documentary and then aesthetic treatments.
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Yet this is not an account merely of a genre, but of the wayportraituredeveloped within the framework of religious and dynastic expectations.
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Their portraitures represented for decades the social, economic, gender, and political ideals of the emerging bourgeoisie, the petite bourgeoisie, and the culture they would forge.
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The chapters onportraitureare by far the most effective.
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Before photography a basic requirement ofportraiturewas an accurate resemblance to the sitter, yet this apparent objectivity was frequently manipulated into different political agendas.
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This was where the connection withportraiturewas formed.
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His observations on the rapidity of flashes could also be adapted toportraiture.
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The fad for equestrianportraiturewas launched in the early 1860s.
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Yet, in spite of such complications, the development of familyportraiturein the mid-decades of the eighteenth century was both rapid and pronounced.
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The hair is tied back rather than flowing, which offsets the neck and face and suggests that the claims of individualportraiturehave weighed more heavily than those of allegory.
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Photography proliferated and significantly changed not only the status of photographicportraiture, by opening it up to the masses, but also its potential uses.
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Memoirs remain interesting even when we realize their mendacity or meretriciousness; for unlike sources or histories, and like novels, their persuasion lies in theirportraiture.
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Hobbes is not opposed toportraiturein principle, although he does place strictures on its proper use.
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So, of course, couldportraiturein general.
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It is that authenticity ofportraiturewhich makes the collection so valuable and unique.
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