On 29 Mar 2009, at 19:48, Dave Crossland wrote:
Photography did in portrait painters. Same story, different century.
It did ?
There really are no portrait painters left?
I think the effect of photography was that portraiture as a market
increased, the affluent could still ( and did ) get a painter but the
masses could either take their own or get a professional in who only
needed 10 mins in the shopping centre temporary studio.
f
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