To catch subjects' brains in the act of choosing people for conscious awareness, a team led by Lisa Barrett, a psychologist at Northeastern University in Boston, used a technique called binocular rivalry.
Not content that I should be a behaviorist or a biochemist, Rob and Jane threw me in at the deep end right from the start and insisted I become both: I went into the field to catch subjects, designed behavioral bioassays, and analyzed the production of chemical signals, using volatile and protein-separation techniques.
Yes, her portraits were often striking and caught her subjects in a new and interesting light.
Internment had caught British subjects unaware, from the cosmopolitan world-traveler to the sailors detained in Hamburg harbor.
"Boy Reading" was typical of Roman Vishniac, who often caught his subjects while they were engrossed in books.
Leica, Rose caught his subjects unawares, and, in the process, captured the sweaty languor of New York City's most iconic summer attraction.
The greatest of all portraitists – a Rembrandt or a Goya – caught their subjects as if temporarily halted between a before and an after: an interruption of the flux of life rather than a becalmed pose.
His photographs suggested that he caught his subjects off guard and midaction, as if they were waiting for a bus, in the middle of a shopping trip or expecting a lunch date.
At the same time, she made sure the light caught her subject's eyes.
Fortunately, on an August morning in 1953, the photographer Tony Vaccaro caught his subject in a good mood.
Reviewing it for the Guardian, I was skeptical about the notion that, somehow, the artist had subversively caught his subject off guard or conned him into wearing this unmistakable reminder of the wars that have bloodied his reputation.
