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Family

Posing for a family picture is often our introduction to the act of being photographed. Whether we want to participate or not, a family member with a camera or a studio photographer with a backdrop guides us into the frame and produces a memory. The genre has its tropes, its classics. Birthdays, graduations, weddings, anniversaries. Family vacations that we wanted to take—or run

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