Portrait Photography

PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHY The miniature portrait had retained its popularity with all social classes until the middle of the 19th century, when it was replaced by the more intimate and more simply executed technique of photography. The earliest portrait photographers were thoroughly painterly in their approach, since they faced fierce competition from painters. Outstanding from the common run of the early portrait photographers were Mathew Brady, the team of Hill and Adamson, Julia Margaret Cameron, and …showed first 75 words of 658 total…

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