when I woke up
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It’s not as if we only have the one face. The face we show our parents isn’t the face we show our friends, and the face we show to the police officer who’s writing the speeding ticket isn’t the face we show the panhandler on the street. So how can we expect one photograph to reveal the multiplicity of our faces?
In A Moveable Feast, Ernest Hemingway spoke about the need to write “one true sentence.” I think portrait photographers…especially those who engage in self portraiture…face a similar challenge. The problem isn’t to show “one true face,” because all our faces are true in some sense. The problem is making the choice of which face to show.
These are four true faces. They comprise one true sentence in the story of this face. It’s a good story.
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