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Period Features: Silhouette Portraits

  The Victorians were mad about the craft of silhouette making, usually making sentimental images of loved ones in a time when photography was still relatively expensive. Most young women had a go and some people became ...

 

The Victorians were mad about the craft of silhouette making, usually making sentimental images of loved ones in a time when photography was still relatively expensive.

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Most young women had a go and some people became really very proficient at it with increasingly complex images being produced.

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It looks like great fun and I’m tempted to use this easy ‘candle’ method myself.

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In fact I’m not the only one who is still charmed by this period feature. Old images go well in a modern setting and a cluster of graphic black and white silhouettes can have real impact – on a stair well

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above a bed

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or just about on any wall at all.

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Apparently there are a few artists who have revived the method like Alison Russell who finds people enjoy having her work at their event such as their wedding reception.http://www.alison-russell.co.uk/weddings.html

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Could be fun.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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