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his portrait is of my grandfather, done from a photo taken in 1912 when he was a teenager. I did it for my mother's 65th birthday. My intention was to preserve the sepia tones of the old photograph. To accomplish this, I strictly limited my pallet to variations of browns. Though it lacks the colorful, life-like quality of my other work, the slightly out-of-focus image and stilted pose reproduces the feel of early photography well.
1998
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