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Elegant.

Usually, studio portraits aren't very interesting. Actually, they are quite boring. They are stiff and two dimensional, vain and shallow. Often they aren't even good representations of the person in the portrait at all, and certainly not good examples of the photographer's art.

Photograph collectors drudge through endless piles and pages of lifeless and superficial abandoned studio captures of ancestors and unknowns. We become quite practiced at spotting a portrait that is warm from the glow of the person otherwise long gone. On such rare turns, we find a photographer and subject working in a delightful duet, creating a portrait that speaks of character, of atmosphere, of presence.

It's a photograph that is not just an image. It's a feeling, a warmth, a person. A memory worth keeping.

It is an elegant photograph.

There are too few portraits like this.

Thousands have been reviewed over the years. Whether Cabinet Card or CDV, loose, framed or in easel-backed mats, here are the scant few really elegant portraits that have settled into an honored place in LOST GALLERY.

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"What are they doing?"