There’s Less to Portraits Than Meets the Eye, and More – The New York Times

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There’s Less to Portraits Than Meets the Eye, and More

Photographing faces has become a means of surveillance, but a carefully made portrait can still, like nothing else, remind us of a common humanity.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/23/magazine/theres-less-to-portraits-than-meets-the-eye-and-more.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

Portraiture existed long before photography was invented. And for more than a dozen years after photography’s invention, it was practically impossible to make a photographic portrait: the required exposure times were too long. But the two eventually came together, and now their pairing seems so natural that it’s as though photography was invented for making portraits.

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