Assertion: photograph's subject | /r/CapableOf | assume long poses
Facets:
value: under a glass roof
type: LOCATION
value: in bright sunlight
type: LOCATION
value: in order to take the first portrait
type: PURPOSE
Source sentences:
text: “ Photography transformed subject into object , and even one might say , into a museum object: in order to take the first portrait (around 1840) the subject had to assume long poses under a glass roof in bright sunlight ; to become an object made one suffer as much as a surgical operation ; then a device was invented , a kind of prosthesis invisible to the lens , which supported and maintained the body in its passage to immobility: this headrest was the pedestal of the statue i would become, the corset of my imaginary essence.