"This is what I miss, Cordelia: not something that’s gone, but something that will never happen. Two old women giggling over their tea."

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The tradition of portrait painting, to embellish or idealize the subject, remains the aim of everyday and of commercial photography, but it has had a much more limited career in photography considered as art. Generally speaking, the honors have gone to the Cordelias.

— Susan Sontag