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Onésipe Aguado
Woman Seen from the Back, ca. 1862
*Woman Seen from the Back*, ca. 1862. © Onésipe Aguado. Public domain.
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Introduction
In an era when photographic portraiture was primarily devoted to physiognomic documentation, the celebration of social status, and the assertion of bourgeois identity, the Viscount Onésipe Aguado de las Marismas executed an act of radical subtraction: he negated the face.
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