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The Sarony photographs of Oscar Wilde taken in 1882 and 1883 are in the public domain. The copyright in the original photographs has expired. Please cite this archive as the source in any reproduction.

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Original text is Copyright © John Cooper.

“The art of posing is in not posing. 

The true pose is not a pose, but a natural position.” 

Napoleon Sarony