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Q. Which Portraits Stay Up on Your Walls?
Asked by Sean
(K=2) on 5/28/1999
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There always seems to be a small subset of portraits in our homes, offices, shops, whatever, that no matter how old they are they remain displayed while others disappear. Is it an expression? A fond memory? An event? What stays up on your walls?
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John O'Connell
(K=362) - Comment Date 5/28/1999
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The B&W shot my sister took of me on one knee, proposing at Niagara Falls, with my newly-minted fiance's jaw hovering near her waistline. Also the shot I've had to print the most for free...
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jacque staskon
(K=109) - Comment Date 5/29/1999
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there are portraits of my children, when they were young and innocent and cute and hadn't gone to jail. ( they're out now). There is also a portrait of my sister who is long since dead. My father standing with my husband before my dad died of cancer. My mom when she was young. I think we keep happy memories on our walls, times of innocence and youth. My mother keeps a portrait of my dad I made when I was learning to light a portrait, she keeps it because it shows honesty and pride. I look at it and I see sloppy lighting but a nice expression. We all keep images on our walls for our own reasons. I believe that is why they become our walls.
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james warden
(K=134) - Comment Date 5/29/1999
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i never liked photos on the wall of a living space or a gallery. keep 'em in the books, newspapers & mags where they belong, i always say.
unless it's some super huge room size polaroid that you can live in for a little while.
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Roger Rouch
(K=201) - Comment Date 5/30/1999
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I find walls a too often expression of a closed, sedentarty, over- affluent society. When occationally necessary, I prefer reminders of whats on the other side, or what things were like when there weren't so many walls.
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