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A portrait is not made in the camera but on either side of it.
-- Edward Steichen
From the Blog
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Start a birthday tradition
Right around the time I was expecting my first child, I read this article in Oprah's magazine about the power of family rituals. Because of my interest in photography, this one, from Jean Hanff Korelitz, really resonated with me: On my daughter's first birthday, I took her out to the backyard with a purple Emilio Pucci dress that had belonged to my mother in the '60s, slipped it over her little body and took her picture. On my daughter's second birthday, I did the same thing (the dress drooped a tiny bit less). By her third birthday, she was throwing up…
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