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Likeness: Portrait Photographs from the Collection

Thomas Southall, curator

Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas

The first great impact of photography was not in science or in creating a totally new art form, but in democratizing the tradition of portraiture. for centuries the portrait was luxury primarily limited to the wealthy elite. Suddenly, little more than a decade after photography's introduction in 1839, anyone who could afford a quarter dollar could have an intensely real daguerreotype portrait of himself or a loved one.

Works of art

Ansel Adams (1902–1984), Woman Behind Screen Door, Independence, California

Antoine-Samuel Adam-Salomon (1818–1881), Alphonse Karr

Manuel Alvarez Bravo (1902–2002), El Señor de Papantla (The Man from Papantla)

Diane Arbus (1923–1971), Exasperated boy with a toy hand grenade, N.Y.C.

Diane Arbus (1923–1971), Jayne Mansfield Cimber-Ottaviano, actress, with her daughter, Jayne Marie, thirteen

Diane Arbus (1923–1971), Their numbers were picked out of a hat. They were just chosen King and Queen of a Senior Citizens dance in NYC. Yetta Granat is 72 and Charles Fahrer is 79. They have never met.

Richard Avedon (1923–2004), Igor Stravinsky

Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton (1904–1980), Marilyn Monroe

Ernest James Bellocq (1873–1949); Lee Friedlander (born 1934), Seated Woman in Tights with Hands Behind Head

Abraham Bogardus (1822–1908), portrait of Samuel F.B. Morse

Mathew B. Brady (1823–1896), portrait of Ulysses S. Grant

Brassaï (1899–1984), Tirage de l'auteue, "Bijou"

Etienne Carjat (1828–1906), Charles Baudelaire

Alvin Langdon Coburn (1882–1966), John S. Sargent

Alvin Langdon Coburn (1882–1966), George Moore

Alvin Langdon Coburn (1882–1966), Roger Fry

Marie Cosindas (1923–2017), Portrait of Rene

Richard Cross (1950–1983), Intelligence, Intensity, Madness, Chicago, 1972

Richard Cross (1950–1983), Dakota Man, South Dakota, 1972

Edward Sheriff Curtis (1868–1952), Qa'hila - Koprino

Judy Dater (born 1941), Twinka

Adolf de Meyer (1868–1949), Boy in Venice

Dr. John W. Draper, Portrait of Dorothy Catherine Draper

Frederick Henry Evans (1853–1943), Feather Boa

Terry Evans (born 1944), Tom Fitch

Terry Evans (born 1944), Amy Peterman

Terry Evans (born 1944), Jim Lambert

Walker Evans (1903–1975), Sharecropper's Family, Hale County, Alabama

Roger Fenton (1819–1869), Lieut. Col. Hallewell, His Day's Work Over

Roger Fenton (1819–1869); Marcus Sparling (1822–1860), Zouave, 2nd Division

Diane Arbus (1923–1971), Blaze Starr at home

Diane Arbus (1923–1971), Ozzie and Harriet Nelson

Charles Fox, untitled (portrait of Gertrude Käsebier)

Francis Frith and Company (active 1859–1871), untitled

Laura Gilpin (1891–1979), Little Medicine Man

Mark Goodman (born 1946), Kansas

Mark Goodman (born 1946), Kansas

Mark Goodman (born 1946), Kansas

Emmet Gowin (born 1941), Wife on Pillow

Emmet Gowin (born 1941), Wife and Car

Billy Higgins, Mick Jagger No. 2

David Octavius Hill (1802–1870); Robert Adamson (1821–1848); Jessie Bertram, Edinburgh Ale

Lewis Wickes Hine (1874–1940), Madonna of the Tenement

Lewis Wickes Hine (1874–1940), Little Orphan Annie

Lewis Wickes Hine (1874–1940), Young Girl in Textile Factory

Lewis Wickes Hine (1874–1940), A Happy Boss in a Power House

Orval Hixon (1884–1982), Portrait of Theodore Kosloff

Orval Hixon (1884–1982), Beth Beri, Vaudeville Dancer

Orval Hixon (1884–1982), Baby Rose Marie

Yousuf Karsh (1908–2002), Portrait of Georgia O'Keeffe

Gertrude Stanton Käsebier (1852–1934), untitled (woman holding a baby)

Gertrude Stanton Käsebier (1852–1934), Stanford White

Gertrude Stanton Käsebier (1852–1934), Rodin in His Studio

John Moffat (1819–1894), William Henry Fox Talbot

Nadar (1820–1910), Portrait of George Sand

Nadar (1820–1910), Champfleury

Arnold Newman (1918–2006), Piet Mondrian, New York City

Arnold Newman (1918–2006), Abraham Walkowitz

Joseph Judd Pennell (1866–1922), Doc Wibkins and Wheel

Joseph Judd Pennell (1866–1922), Nellie Martin and Friend

Oscar Gustav Rejlander (1813–1875), The Poet's Family at Farringford

Oscar Gustav Rejlander (1813–1875), Alfred Tennyson

Oscar Gustav Rejlander (1813–1875), Lionel Tennyson

Oscar Gustav Rejlander (1813–1875), Sir John Herschel

Gunther Sander; August Sander (1876–1964), The Painter, Heinrich Hoerle, Cologne

Gunther Sander; August Sander (1876–1964), Student Teacher, Westerwald

W. Eugene Smith (1918–1978), Wales

Edward Steichen (1879–1973), J. P. Morgan

Edward Steichen (1879–1973), Isadora Duncan

Edward Steichen (1879–1973), Eugene O'Neill

Paul Strand (1890–1976), Man, Tenancingo

Paul Strand (1890–1976), Woman, Patzcuaro

John Thomson (1837–1921), Cast Iron Billy

Doris Ulmann (1882–1934), Appalachian Child

Adam Clark Vroman (1856–1916), Hopi Maiden with Squash Blossom Hairdress I

Weegee (1899–1968), Norma-"The Poor Man's Mae West"

Jack Warren Welpott (1923–2007), Kathleen Kelly

Jack Warren Welpott (1923–2007), Portrait of Valerie Du Vol

Edward Weston (1886–1958), Rosa Roland de Covarrubias in Tehuana Costume, Mexico

Brett Weston (1911–1993); Edward Weston (1886–1958), Igor Stravinsky

portrait of woman in lace gloves

portrait of three Union soldiers

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