This is largely an argument from silence, but one precious and poignant object (reproduced as one of eight coloured plates) gives it weight: an exquisite mother-of-pearl locket ring dating from c1575, which opens to reveal Elizabeth's own portrait paired with Boleyn's.
The wall texts that accompany the images as well as Harris's intense, repeated presence on the wall underline the very personal nature of the project, and his decision to photograph everyone from both front and back adds a quirky, telling layer of vulnerability to each portrait pairing.
For $60, I could order "Lifetime Photos," consisting of a childhood and adult portrait pair.
Another captures the excitement and innocence in a portrait pair of a boy owner and his superimposed pet.
In the meantime, Altschuler is hoping to find more photograph-portrait pairs of lesser-known individuals from the early 1800s.
The technique, described online this month in Perception, revealed only subtle differences between the portraits and the retroactive "photographs," and it's tough to draw any major conclusions with so few photograph-portrait pairs to work with, say the authors.
Eight years later, his work has been published in "Box," a beautifully produced collection of nearly three hundred direct and powerful portraits, paired with choice quotes from the subjects selected by the sportswriter Thomas Hauser.
From 1631 to 1635, in Uylenburgh's workshop, Rembrandt produced a substantial number of portraits (mainly pairs of pendants) and some group portraits, such as The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp (1632).
Of the 36 portrait-trait adjective pairs, 16 portraits were "old" portraits identical with those that had been paired with positive or negative self-descriptions from the previous day's impression-formation task.
The first portrait-description pair, and every second remaining portrait-description pair, was neutral, and between these the positive and negative portrait-description pairs alternated.
Participants then saw a series of 33 portrait-description pairs, each shown for 12 s, with a black screen shown for 2 s between each portrait-description pair.
