portrait
Example Sentences
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David deployed some of the same reportage techniques in his private portrait commissions, which constitute half the exhibition.
The coin found in Midlothian has a portrait of the monarch's head on one side and a cross-based design on the other.
From BBC
He had come to vote at Notre Dame college in the Plateau district, where voters queued in a hall below a huge portrait of Felix Houphouet-Boigny, the west African nation's founding president.
From Barron's
Images of the incumbent have flooded the capital, with neon signs, giant portraits and T-shirts bearing his likeness seen everywhere on the streets.
From Barron's
But their emphasis here presents Man Ray, who was a talented portrait photographer, as an experimentalist chasing rather than creating imagery.
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