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Shortly after an infant is born, they open their eyes. As their power of perception grows, their first fascination is with faces. We have developed a constant perceptive interest in reading or gazing at the faces of others. It becomes the way we initially make sense of others. The expressive features of a person are largely revealed through their face. We initially look at portraits and, after first glance, try to intuit aspects of the inside of whoever is pictured or captured in the photographic lens. We use the visible to help reveal the invisible. Historically for photographers, the human …