The Online Photographer: 'The Portrait'

Thursday, 12 February 2009

'The Portrait'

I almost forgot! I don't mean to overdo the archive thing, but the man is 200 today. Apropos.

Mike

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Posted on Thursday, 12 February 2009 at 07:53 PM | Permalink

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Silly me, I thought it might be Darwin.

Posted by: Ken White | Thursday, 12 February 2009 at 09:13 PM

Nice to read that, as I'm a "student" of Mr. Lincoln. I've often thought he wasn't "human", but increasingly I see the man, but also an extraordinary humanity.

Bron

Posted by: Bron Janulis | Thursday, 12 February 2009 at 10:03 PM

Ken,
52 years on Earth and I've *never heard* that Lincoln and Darwin were born on the same day. You really do learn something new every day....

Mike

Posted by: Mike Johnston | Thursday, 12 February 2009 at 10:07 PM

Ken White beat me to it, but there are 'classic' portraits here, too:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/evolution/4599235/Charles-Darwin-The-man-behind-the-theory-of-evolution.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Darwin

Posted by: Gary K Froehlich | Thursday, 12 February 2009 at 11:27 PM

Heh, thought it was Darwin too.

Posted by: Janne | Friday, 13 February 2009 at 12:16 AM

I posted this on the original post, but again... this is a revelation.

I can't help but think Timothy Greenfield-Sanders when I see this. Single broad light, gray background, eyes into the camera. Somehow it's proof that the basics never go out of style.

Posted by: ben syverson | Friday, 13 February 2009 at 12:35 AM

I couldn't recall you ever posting a photograph of Darwin so I went for Lincoln. I didn't know they were born on the same day until now

Darwin

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b4/Charles_Darwin_in_1855.jpg

Posted by: Sean | Friday, 13 February 2009 at 05:57 AM

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