The length of exposure (one minute in sunlight) is still too long for the portrait. It was fifteen minutes when I first began my work. Progress may continue.
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It takes a long time for a man to look like his portrait.
There's a discipline. When you take someone's portrait, you don't have to take 50 photographs, just find that one so that when you release the shutter, that's the image that you took.
People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography.
In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view. The image may not be literally what's going on, but it's representative.
Ironically, my paintings don't photograph well.
I kept wanting to push my image as validity; I wanted to see my portrait on a wall and know it was okay.
You can't expect to take a definitive image in half an hour. It takes days, often years.
In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view and to be conceptual with a picture. The image may not be literally what's going on, but it's representative.
I still find doing portraits a terrific challenge, but even though I've done hundreds of them, I've never stopped questioning the very nature of portraiture because it deals exclusively with appearances. I've never believed people are what they look like and think it's impossible to really know what people are.
Photographs aren't accounts of scrutiny. The shutter is open for a fraction of a second.
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