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Our long-standing friendship with Degas, which on our mother's side went back to their childhood, was broken off."
Despite his obsessive care in arranging shots, Degas the amateur photographer made mistakes, and some of these led to further discoveries.
In the most complex of Degas' photographs, his great dual portrait of the painter Renoir and the poet Stéphane Mallarmé (Museum of Modern Art, New York), Renoir's head is posed dead center in the composition, with the vertical of the mirror frame bisecting his head.
In the mirror itself Degas' camera apparatus is visible, but his own head is obliterated--the flash of genius or the death of the author--by a sunburst of illumination.
Born in 1840 into a family of modest means, he lacked the financial security net of aristocrats such as Degas, Manet, and Berthe Morisot.