The use of photography for portraiture started almost as soon as photography was discovered. This stunning review of the portrait over the past 150 years, features some of the greatest names in photography, such as Henry Fox Talbot, Julia Margaret Cameron, Roger Fenton, Lewis Carroll, Frederick Evans, Frank Meadow Sutcliffe, Peter Henry Emerson, Edward Steichen, Edward Weston, Walker Evans, Cecil Beaton, Karsh, Dorothy Wilding, Jane Bown, and the Lords Snowdon and Lichfield. Do portraits tell us something of the character that we don't already know, or is it impossible, as Duncan says in Macbeth; "There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face"?