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Handbook of the practice and art of photography (1875)

Vogel, Hermann Wilhelm, 1834-1898, Mo˜lling, Edward F · Philadelphia, Benerman & Wilson · leaf 368

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362 THE PRACTICE OF PHOTOGRAPHY. is imitated over and over again, until finally it becomes the type of the character. So the Zeus and the Athene by Phidias, and the Hercules by Lysippus. Fig. 146. … Few people have features which clearly and unmistakably repre- sent their character. Physiognomists are badly at fault. I know persons whose compressed lips have something sly and malicious, whose small greenish eyes have something false and treacherous in them, and still they are the best and most…

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