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<p>[QUOTE="silverthwait, post: 106307, member: 103"]Additional info: certain photographers used a kind of iconography to indicate the status of their subjects; in this case the whatchamacallit thing and the books. (Artists in paint and other media did the same.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, certain photographers gussied up their subjects to make them more wealthy looking. In this case, the jewelry and the buttons have been picked out in gold. But sometimes the ornaments are strictly from the imagination of the photographer.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="silverthwait, post: 106307, member: 103"]Additional info: certain photographers used a kind of iconography to indicate the status of their subjects; in this case the whatchamacallit thing and the books. (Artists in paint and other media did the same.) Also, certain photographers gussied up their subjects to make them more wealthy looking. In this case, the jewelry and the buttons have been picked out in gold. But sometimes the ornaments are strictly from the imagination of the photographer.[/QUOTE]
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