Mr. Dent went on to say that the painter could "ease" his perspective, that is to say, he could alter the relative sizes of the face, bande and limbs so as to place his line of Perspective as if it were all in one But the photographer could mot do. this except by working at correct distance, and if this was once grasped all the difficulties of perspective would vanish. The likeness must-be absolute. There must be. no elimination éf essentials: minor details may be difused out, or otherwise taken away, such a8 the tiny wrinkles present in elderly people; but the main lines must not be removed or the character of the subject is destroyed in the portrait. The art of the caricaturist was to erate these lines; but before could exaggerate them he had to find them; these same lines were most important in the whole face and they had to be retained.
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