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Czimber treated his student subjects with the same care he brought to formal portrait commissions — no hierarchy between the officially important and the young. A classroom gallery, as a concept, inverts the usual dynamic: the students become the displayed rather than the attending, but without losing the subjecthood that formal portraiture usually reserves for people of consequence. These are faces that belong on walls, even if no institution commissioned the portraits and no patron commissioned the prints. The seriousness of the attention makes the case.