"Particular Subjects in a State of Emergency" Angela Dufresne, Peter Rostovsky, and Faye Hirsch in conversation, moderated by Melissa Ragona. o represent an individual is to conjure the thorny questions of who this individual is: their class, race, gender, sexual orientation, relation to the artist and so on. What constitutes the "act of recognition" in portraiture? What kind of a position does "subjectivity" take in contemporary portraiture?