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According to Ross, the art of making silhouettes was very important before the era of photography, and went back to Ancient Greece. [2] He worked quickly with a pair of small scissors, cutting portraits from thin matt black card. He usually concentrated on the profile, but would also enhance the portrait by snipping out a few details.
The sitter's face was recorded as a black silhouette. In 1785, Miers writes on the back of one of his images promoting the process: “preserves the most exact Symmetry and animated expression of the Features, much Superior to any other Method. Time of sitting one minute. N.B.
Silhouette pictures could easily be printed by blocks that were cheaper to produce and longer lasting than detailed black and white illustrations. Silhouette pictures sometimes appear in books of the early 20th century in conjunction with colour plates. (The colour plates were expensive to produce and each one was glued into the book by hand.)
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Williams made over 8,000 silhouettes during his first year working at Peale's museum. [3] He earned between 6 and 8 cents for every silhouette he cut. [4] With the money Williams earned making silhouettes, he bought a house and married. [1] By 1823, silhouette-cutting as a profession was in decline, and Williams had to sell his house. [1]
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The Hand of Man (1902) by Alfred Stieglitz. The Hand of Man is a black and white photograph taken by Alfred Stieglitz in 1902. This is one of the pictures he took concerning urban life and would be published in the first issue of his magazine Camera Work, in January 1903.