Woman
in Floral Bonnet and Zig-Zag
Dress
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"Expression
is everything
in a daguerreotype. All else,--the hair
--jewelry --lace-work --drapery or
dress, and attitude, are only aids to
expression. It must at least be
comfortable, and ought to be amiable.
It ought also to be sensible, spirited
and dignified, and usually with care
and patience may be so." --A.
S. Southworth, 1854
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"Learn
to look and see the
difference under different lights in
the same faces. Learn to see the fine
points in every face, for the plainest
faces in the world are human faces,
belonging to human beings... " --A.
S. Southworth, 1873
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Vignette
With a Black
Background
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Winter
Portrait with Fur Coat and
Gloves
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"There
is a soul and
feeling
in the natural face... for the Almighty
made it for the very purpose that you
must see it, and you can see it. You
must feel that the human face is
handsomer than the finest artist ever
painted it. I say it, I believe I am
right. Excuse me for so much
feeling." --A.
S. Southworth, 1873
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Stereoscopic
Portrait with Columns
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"In
the nice production of light and
shade
which is the perfection of modelling,
the Daguerreotype will be found to
surpass the Artist's best efforts,
being capable of representing
independently, action, expression, and
character to a great extent; and in
some instances approaches very nearly,
if it does not equal these higher
branches, thus developing beauty in
grace of motion and in repose, which is
the first object and the supreme law of
all Art." --A.S.
Southworth, 1855
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Multiple
Portrait of a Woman in a Shawl (detail,
right)
"The
artist, even in
photography,
must go beyond discovery and the
knowlege of facts; he must create and
invent truths and produce new
developments of facts. " --A.S.
Southworth, 1870
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"What
is to be done is obliged to be done
quickly.
The whole character of the sitter is to
be read at first sight; the whole
likeness, as it shall appear when
finished, is to be seen at first, in
each and all its details, and in their
unity and combinations." --A.
S. Southworth, 1870
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Vignette
of a Woman With Veil (possibly
the poet and author Lydia H.
Sigourney)
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A
Group
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"It
should be the aim of the
artist-photographer to produce in the
likeness the best possible character
and finest
expression
of
which that particular face or figure
could ever have been capable. But in
the
result there
is to be no departure from truth
in
the delineation and representation of
beauty,
and expression, and character."
--
A. S. Southworth, 1870
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