This rather grim encounter between Big Bird and Chuck Close (thanks P) reminds us that Close, as well as being a quadriplegic, is unable to recognize faces.
“Essentially I have no memory at all for people in real space, but when I flatten them out in a photograph, I can commit that image to memory in a way; I have almost a kind of photographic memory for flat stuff.”
Close’s condition is known as face blindness, or prosopagnosia.
Saturday, June 20, 2009
And you are?
