New chapter of Albert Tarragó's Graphic work catalog:
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When to copying photos is called do portraits
Twelve years ago,
when a portraitist applied for a permit to draw people in La Rambla, then the
City council examined him by asking him to draw a person in front a commission of
experts.
But after eight years
on the street many portraitists had grown used to copying photos instead of
drawing the people. To do this, they were using as a bait astonishing
photorealistic drawings made with the help of a projector such that hardly
they could match its effect when the client was a person sitting before them.
The disappointment caused by this widespread practice had been increasing distrust
among the public, thus, the difficulty to find customers had risen while prices
decreased to almost those of caricatures.
But the worst started
to happen the day it was the public administration itself and local police
those who started to require the portraitists to exhibit those misleading
portraits copied from photos as a sample for the public. Paradoxically,
insisted, it was the only technique for which they had been autorized.
