. Portrait . may bethe fault of the lens but just as frequently it is ourincapability of judging the rudiments of emotion. Ourfaculty of visual apprehension may work fast enough,but our retina or our mind do not possess the faculty ofrecording it as a separate impression, and it does notenter into our stock and store of memory. Bearingthis in mind, a slightly prolonged, so called compositeexposure, seems to be more trustworthy. I do not believe that it would be possible to get asharp, well defined facial expression as in Fig. 4 in anyother way. What this particular expression consists ofcan ha
. Portrait . may bethe fault of the lens but just as frequently it is ourincapability of judging the rudiments of emotion. Ourfaculty of visual apprehension may work fast enough,but our retina or our mind do not possess the faculty ofrecording it as a separate impression, and it does notenter into our stock and store of memory. Bearingthis in mind, a slightly prolonged, so called compositeexposure, seems to be more trustworthy. I do not believe that it would be possible to get asharp, well defined facial expression as in Fig. 4 in anyother way. What this particular expression consists ofcan hardly be explained,at least not in a matter-of-fact way. It is justan expression as a Lit-tle Girl with Cherriesmight assume. That isabout all one can sayabout it. And it is justthis kind of uncertainexpression which ismost desirable, as therange of expression inportraiture is necessar-ily limited. It cannotgo beyond cheerful andcontemplative moods,for a decided facialexpression always dim-inishes the likeness. PORTRAIT quality. It limits the expression to a specific mood andfails to emphasize the general composite appearance,which is the main factor of all successful renditions oflikeness. What we term a character interpretation is frequentlya misleading and fictitious attribute. If a face showsstrong character—and who will determine in manywhether it has this quality or not?—it will surely notlose these traits if it is simply photographed like anyother. If character interpretation, on the other hand,means a certain accentuation or annotation of facts,it oversteps the boundaries of ordinary portraiture,even more so than with the practice of introducingfacial expressions. Character interpretation is a termthat is generally appHed to celebrities, people that arein the public eye. The public has formed, throughcaricatures and magazine reproductions, or throughactually seeing the person at pubUc functions, a certainidea of the looks and appearance of the same, and theartist wan
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