There it sits beside the noble nose, the solitary imperfection in Avedon's impossibly beautiful 2004 portrait of Barack Obama, when Obama was the wunderkind of the struggling Democrats.
He was aptly given an engraved portrait of Voltaire when he left Keble in 1979 for his final post as professor of theology at Bristol.
Warhol proposed substituting a portrait of Robert Moses; when this was judged unacceptable, he painted over "Thirteen Most Wanted Men" with silver paint — a visible erasure that was widely read as a statement about censorship.
That's fine for most of the museum's prized John Singleton Copley collection, but it has kept Copley's portrait of "George IV When Prince of Wales," which soars to more than 12 feet, in storage for as long as anyone can remember.
Larner's one-man show creates a vivid portrait of Allyson ("When I meet my maker, I'm having words. Faulty goods"), the almighty mess that is the British law when it comes to suicide, and of the journey to Switzerland from which Allyson did not return.
When I saw the film I felt thankful to both actresses, and particularly to Judi Dench, not only for having made such a wonderfully restrained and understanding portrait of Iris when she was ill, but for creating a work of art -- one that I could watch and admire; be deeply touched by, too -- but one in which my own private emotions were not in the least involved.
One of Banier's best-known photographs is a portrait of Castaing when she was 95.
Ms. Colvin's last dispatch was like so many before it: a portrait of what happens when the bombs land, when luck runs out, when civilians end up in the crucible of conflict.
He also was a prolific street photographer, taking portraits of New Yorkers when they weren't looking.
It's also a luminous portrait of an era when holidaymaking was more chaotic and less commodified than it is now: Colette, when packing, simply puts various household objects into hampers and valises (and spends the holiday, whether by beach or up mountain, in smart frocks and stilettoes).
