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Portraits are often as much about the photographer as they are about the sitter. There is a reciprocal exchange, albeit unconscious, when the sitter reveals glimpses of their true nature and the photographer is attentive enough to recognize and know when such a moment is being revealed to them. At the same time I try to be aware of the sculptural qualities of the body and head - the structure of a face and the tension between the four straight edges of the frame and the organic curve of a head or body within it. I do this while working to find an expression of the person's individuality. "No individual can be objectively reproduced by creative representation, but the
representation can be of such a kind as to allow the interpreted individuality to be
experienced by everyone, experienced so vehemently
and directly that the individual person is immediately present. Every work that achieves
this is a portrait."
- Hermann Deckert, 1929
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