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Some Street Portraits

Started 2 months ago | Photos thread
Shooters on My Squad Regular Member • Posts: 391
Re: Some Street Portraits
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Yeah, technically you are maybe right.

But then let’s say these are some candid street portraits, and not posed street portraits.

Let’s take a look at Wikipedia and how they describe a portrait:

A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expressions are predominant.

Hm, seems you are wrong according to Wikipedia.

But Wikipedia isn’t the one and only truth, right? So let’s maybe check the etymology of the word portrait:

1560s, "a figure, drawn or painted," a back formation from portraiture or directly from French portrait, from Old French portret (13c.), noun use of past participle of portraire "to paint, depict" (see portray). Especially a picture or representation of the head and face of a person drawn from life.

Hmmm, seems you’re wrong again.

In the end I think you are wrong, but I get where you’re coming from.

But why does this matter at all in respect to this thread? Nothing nice to say about these photos?

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