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<p>[QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 4601109, member: 110350"]I'm not familiar with this narrow a definition of the word "portrait," but apparently you're not the only person to view the concept that way. See, for example, <a href="https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/18566/what-is-the-definition-of-portrait-photography" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/18566/what-is-the-definition-of-portrait-photography" rel="nofollow">https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/18566/what-is-the-definition-of-portrait-photography</a>: "A portrait . . . [c]aptures the personality or essence of a subject. Not just a picture with a person in it. A 'clinical' portrait might not attempt to reveal the soul of a person, but it still needs to capture something of that person's uniqueness — or else it's not a portrait." Of course, there are many definitions of the word that are not nearly so narrow. </p><p><br /></p><p>Some people might consider my avatar to be a portrait, for example, but in fact under your definition it isn't: it happens to be the picture on my German passport, one of the few times in recent years that I've allowed my photo to be be taken! (I'm not a big fan of how I look in photographs.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 4601109, member: 110350"]I'm not familiar with this narrow a definition of the word "portrait," but apparently you're not the only person to view the concept that way. See, for example, [URL]https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/18566/what-is-the-definition-of-portrait-photography[/URL]: "A portrait . . . [c]aptures the personality or essence of a subject. Not just a picture with a person in it. A 'clinical' portrait might not attempt to reveal the soul of a person, but it still needs to capture something of that person's uniqueness — or else it's not a portrait." Of course, there are many definitions of the word that are not nearly so narrow. Some people might consider my avatar to be a portrait, for example, but in fact under your definition it isn't: it happens to be the picture on my German passport, one of the few times in recent years that I've allowed my photo to be be taken! (I'm not a big fan of how I look in photographs.)[/QUOTE]
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