Steichen's observation that a portrait is made on both sides of the camera rings true with me. If the subject and the photographer are not fully engaged it is likely a mug shot. That said "fully engaged" is a slippery term. Perhaps "belonging to the time and place" would be a better statement. Clemens (Clem) Starck (above) is a poet whom I have met from time to time at booksellers' events. He and I are about the same vintage and both of us have become who and what we are