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Amateur Victorian Photography
A study of the O’Reilly photograph collection By Liberty Walton B.A. Fine Arts |
When amid life’s surging battle Reverie its solace lends Sweet it is to scan the faces - Picture faces - of old friends... Some have passed the mystic portals Where the usher Death presides Some to distant climes have wandered Borne on Time’s relentless tides; Some, perchance, to paths unholy; Some to deeds without a name But the faces in the album Are for aye and aye the same. Picture faces! Oh what volumes Of unwritten life ye hold: Youthful faces! pure, sweet faces! Dearly prized as we grow old. M.C. Duncan Frontispiece to Richard Penlake Home Portraits for Amateur Photographers (1899) Liz Wells, ed. Photography, A Critical Introduction ; Routledge, New York 1997, p. 105 |
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