Likeness

Iread in a magazine recently a quote from Finish photographer (Nelli Palomaki) who reckoned "A good portrait is often one that disappoints the photographer or the sitter".

Well you can add to that the sitter's mummy, Nana or GG.

It's something to do with it not looking like him. Even though he must have looked like that for at least 1/100th of a second.

I did try to argue that people in portraits may not always look like the way you expect that person to look, but I was fighting a losing battle here.

I'm interested in people's thoughts. So should a portrait of someone always have to "look" like them?