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What makes a good portrait? After I already exhibited some theses on portrait photography a few weeks ago, Jeff Curto’s podcast “The History of Photography” gave me further ideas. Curto, who is also responsible for the podcast Camera Position on the creative aspects of photography, discusses one of the early forms of photography: the daguerreotype.

Photographing a person calls for another approach than photographing buildings. A portrait is not just a photograph of a person. And because humans are more than just their faces, I spent some thoughts about how we can capture this “more” in photography.