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well we have something better than photos from the ancient Greeks and Egyptians -- sculpture! ex. the bust of nefertiti (~1345 BC)
by modzu 8y ago
well we have something better than photos from the ancient Greeks and Egyptians -- sculpture! ex. the bust of nefertiti (~1345 BC)
- agumonkey 8y agoor a mummy
- TheSpiceIsLife 8y agoArtists rendition. When I look at the bust of Nefertiti I like to imagine Nefertiti saying something like "destroy it, make the nose a little smaller, then execute the artist".
- kqr 8y agoTo be fair, that'd just as likely be true of a photograph as well. People in the digital age forget how much artistic freedom is granted by staging a photograph and later processing it in the darkroom.