The montony of the year book portrait is of a rare kind. You see the person, then you don't. You see the camera working to arrest time. And remarkably, it succeeds almost magically by holding the face of youth still. But the cost is high, because the image also feels so solitary and straight-jacketed. Can we do something that embraces that monotonous convention? Can we celebrate the most predictable portrait format of all time by picturing some equally staid, restained, maddingly repetitive iterations of the original staged image? To frame the face of youth, and hold it still is a technological miracle. To celebrate the monotony of that still is to pay homage to the Yearbook. And a pleasure, Especially when the still is of someone you will love for as long as you live.
