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New photobook shows casts George Washington in a new light


It goes without saying that when photography didn't exist there was no way of capturing "real images".

The only way in which people, landscape and architecture – history even – was visually captured was through the mediums of drawing and paintings.

However, an insatiable curiosity amongst the leaders at George Washington's Mount Vernon Estate got the better of them and they sought to find out just what the first president of the United States may have looked like had he been snapped by a photographer.

In the photobook The Many Faces of George Washington, Carla Killough McClafferty charts the journey of this process, mixing up text and full colour images as one of the founding fathers is painstakingly "brought to life".

Luckily for the team they had a "life mask" of the Washington, which was created when he was 53-years-old. This allowed them the foundations from which to explore how he would have looked at different and seminal points in his life.

This includes a portrait of when he was a mere surveyor at the age of 19, as a 45-year-old general of the Continental Army and, most notably, as a 55-year-old man who had just become the first ever president of the Unites States of America.
 

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