Re: Picture of Kate on cover of The Sensual World

[Doug Alan <nessus@athena.mit.edu>]

> From: msriram@cis.ohio-state.edu (M G SriRam)

> It may be my imagination, or maybe others have noticed this too, but
> Kate's eyes seem to be looking directly at you no matter from which
> angle you are looking at her in the TSW cover picture.  [...]  my
> wife, an artist, told me that this is a more or less well-known
> trick of perspective used often by renaissance painters.

I dunno... it seems to me that in any painting or photo where the
subject looks straight at the camera, the eyes will seem to be looking
directly at you no matter from which angle you look at the picture.

|>oug

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