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In the early days of photographic portraiture, this is what you got; a large format photograph. I have some, my great-grandfather with wife and baby son, his brother with wife and baby daughter. They look starchily formal in their Sunday best, everyone frozen, even the babies have excellent posture. My great grand-mother rests a hand on her husband’s shoulder, his big arm supports uncle Fred and holds him close. They do not have flowers in their hair, there are no comfy sweaters. There is a painted backdrop of a rose garden, not a vine covered concrete wall. The babies wear booties, I do not get to count the toes on cherubic pudgy feet.
In the early days of family life this is what you get, a closeness that a petal could not squeeze between. A small child who clings, encircled by adult closeness. Parents who support each other without even touching. Adults and their offspring, a protective and committed unit.
Photography has changed, families… not so much.
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