Radiolab is currently my favourite podcast. It is free and can be subscribed to in order to listen on your computer or on your iPod or your phone. This short episode is relevant to faces and self portraits and is fascinating! It features Chuck Close, the famous artist that paints enormous portraits. In this episode, Chuck Close describes how he is actually "face blind", which is that he is unable to recognize and remember faces, even of people who are close to him! Fascinating talk, have a listen!
Here is a write up from the Radiolab page.
"Oliver Sacks, the famous neuroscientist and author, can't recognize faces. Neither can Chuck Close, the great artist known for his enormous paintings of ... that's right, faces.
Oliver and Chuck--both born with the condition known as Face Blindness--have spent their lives decoding who is saying hello to them. You can sit down with either man, talk to him for an hour, and if he sees you again just fifteen minutes later, he will have no idea who you are. (Unless you have a very squeaky voice or happen to be wearing the same odd purple hat.)
In this podcast, we listen in on a conversation Robert had with Chuck and Oliver at Hunter College in New York City as part of the World Science Festival. Chuck and Oliver tell Robert what it's like to live with Face Blindness and describe two very different ways of coping with this condition, which may be more common than we think.
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