Detail
Sometimes it’s appropriate to post an image without comment, but I don’t want to be in the habit of it. Example, the portrait I put here yesterday.
So, if you took all the grain out of this image, and put back the spectrum of color that was presumably bouncing off this lady, would you know approximately when the photo was taken? Her hair is down and seems not to be anchored too deeply in an era. Is there something about her face that dates her?
Why is it that a face of an era is so often an artifact specifically of that era?
Why do 17-year-olds in the 1985 yearbook look like 40-year-olds at a costume party? Why do actors depicting 1962 almost always betray themselves as contemporary actors before even speaking a line? Do our faces reflect our times? Are they shaped by our evolving language? What are these changes happening to my body?
UPDATE: This is interesting. Portraits of a person at two different ages stitched together, via Buzzfeed.
