In the mid-1870s, Robert Crawshay started a now-forgotten contest designed to promote the development of direct life-size photography in Britain and the advent of a more objective photographic portrait. The contest saw much enthusiasm and many entries, but, as this article argues, ultimately ended up setting back the very causes it sought to advance. The competition shone a spotlight on problems with focus, tone, and especially scale when it came to the ‘life-size’ direct portrait, and it managed to promote the role of subjectivity and the superiority of enlargement instead of its preferred ends.

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大直接头：Robert Crawshay 的真人大小摄影梦想

1870 年代中期，Robert Crawshay 发起了一项现已被遗忘的竞赛，旨在促进英国直接实物大小摄影的发展以及更客观的肖像摄影的出现。这场比赛看到了很多热情和许多参赛作品，但是，正如本文所言，最终导致它试图推进的事业受挫。本次大赛聚焦“真人大小”直人肖像的焦点、色调、尤其是比例问题，成功地提升了主体性的作用和放大的优越性，而不是其首选目的。