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Are there any fundamental differences between photographic and painted portraiture
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... Are there any fundamental differences between photographic and painted portraiture? In this essay I hope to define some of the fundamental differences between the above two methods. I will discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each as vehicles of portraiture. However, this is a very wide question and though it has great scope for deeper analysis, lack of words and space has prevented me from exploring each point in more detail here. When addressing this subject, I feel it is very important to recognise that artists have very different objectives when creating a portrait. For some, a portrait may simply be a study of physical likeness whereas for others it may be a study of the sitter's character, their inner personality. This distinction makes it a challenging task to compare photographic and painterly ideas of what a portrait consists of. I must also draw attention to the fact that photography has been caught
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