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Old “Ghostmother” Portraits, and a New Twist…
Old “Ghostmother” Portraits, and a New Twist… We were out for a week, but now we’re back. We missed you. Now, please enjoy some genuine old portraits, and then some newfangled alterations of old portraits. Old portraits of children with creepy ‘ghostmothers’ in the background show how far mums would go for a good photo By Daily Mail Reporter “In the early days of photography, many well-off families jumped at the chance to have their precious children’s likeness captured for eternity. The one trick that they had to deal with next, after finding photographers willing to set up the bulky equipment and travelling to the portrait location, was getting the…
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2013 » November
Archive for November, 2013 Memory Distortions Can we trust our own memories? How Many of Your Memories Are Fake? When people with Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory—those who can remember what they ate for breakfast on a specific day 10 years ago—are tested for accuracy, researchers find what goes into false memories. by Erika Hayasaki, The Atlantic “One afternoon in February 2011, seven researchers at the University of California, Irvine sat around a long table facing Frank Healy, a bright-eyed 50-year-old visitor from South Jersey, taking turns quizzing him on his extraordinary memory. Observing from outside of the circle, I tape-recorded the conversation as one researcher tossed out a date at…
