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Police should use caricatures to identify criminals

Submitted by John Jones on Tue, 2007-11-27 18:52. | |

caricature of Arnold Schwarzenegger by Glenn Ferguson

The Guardian is reporting that a study by Charlie Frowd, Vicki Bruce, David Ross, Alex McIntyre, and Peter J. B. Hancock at the University of Central Lancashire published in Visual Cognition found that subjects were able to identify a caricature of a person’s face 40% of the time, but could only identify the same face in a police sketch 20% of the time.

via Boing Boing

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History of children’s literature illustration

Submitted by John Jones on Tue, 2007-11-27 18:20. | |

Slate has posted a slideshow on the history of the illustration of American children’s books. The slides are based on Timothy G. Young’s book, Drawn To Enchant, which explains how images for children went from orderly scenes of proper behavior, like this one by Justin H. Howard for Doings of the Alphabet (excluding, of course, the bratty mischief-makers in the background):

illustration by Justin H. Howard for Doings of the Alphabet, published in 1869

to the madcap drawings of Maurice Sendak:

illustration by Maurice Sendak for Where the Wild Things Are, published in 1963

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