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Once upon a time in a castle, an apprentice model who was very beautiful but a little shy in front of the lens...
She was like a fragile little animal that needs to be tamed, without being too rushed. Once this stage was reached, I had the pleasure of obtaining beautiful smiles, and a rather relaxed attitude.
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A true portrait should, today and a hundred years from today, the Testimony of how this person looked and what kind of human being he was.
Philippe Halsman
postscript to a Letter to Theo van Gogh, Antwerp, Monday, 14 December 1885 when comparing painted portraits to photographs of people