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  2. Portrait painting - Wikipedia

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    Self-portrait of Nicolas Régnier painting a portrait of Vincenzo Giustiniani, 1623–24, Fogg Art Museum. Portrait painting is a genre in painting, where the intent is to represent a specific human subject. The term 'portrait painting' can also describe the actual painted portrait. Portraitists may create their work by commission, for public ...

  3. Portrait photography - Wikipedia

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    Portrait photography, or portraiture, is a type of photography aimed toward capturing the personality of a person or group of people by using effective lighting, backdrops, and poses. [1] A portrait photograph may be artistic or clinical. [1] Frequently, portraits are commissioned for special occasions, such as weddings, school events, or ...

  4. History of photography - Wikipedia

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    Physiognotrace of Hans Lindholm by Gilles-Louis Chrétien. A physiognotrace is an instrument, designed to support semi-automated portrait. [5] [11] It was invented in the 18th century and was abandoned when light-sensitive materials were discovered.

  5. Timeline of photography technology - Wikipedia

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    1902 – Arthur Korn devises practical telephotography technology (reduction of photographic images to signals that can be transmitted by wire to other locations). Wire-Photos are in wide use in Europe by 1910, and transmitted to other continents by 1922. 1907 – The Autochrome plate is introduced.

  6. Portrait - Wikipedia

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    The Mona Lisa, a painting by Leonardo da Vinci of Lisa Gherardini, is the world's most famous portrait. A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face is always predominant. In arts, a portrait can be represented as half body and even full body. If the subject in full body better ...

  7. Daguerreotype - Wikipedia

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    Daguerreotype. Daguerreotype (/ dəˈɡɛər (i.) əˌtaɪp, - (i.) oʊ -/ ⓘ; [1][2] French: daguerréotype) was the first publicly available photographic process, widely used during the 1840s and 1850s. "Daguerreotype" also refers to an image created through this process. Invented by Louis Daguerre and introduced worldwide in 1839, [3][4][5 ...

  8. Robert Cornelius - Wikipedia

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    Robert Cornelius (/ k ɔːr ˈ n iː l i ə s /; March 1, 1809 [1] – August 10, 1893) was an American photographer and pioneer in the history of photography.His daguerreotype self-portrait taken in 1839 is generally accepted as the first known photographic portrait of a person taken in the United States, and a very important achievement for self-portraiture.

  9. Photography - Wikipedia

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    Photography is the art, application, and practice of creating images by recording light, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film. It is employed in many fields of science, manufacturing (e.g., photolithography), and business, as well as its more direct ...