Learning to See a Human Being

A Glance and All That It Contains Imagine you're the costume designer for a major film, and the director has just handed you a single photograph from the 1940s — a black-and-white still of the lead actress. Your job is to recreate her exact look: not just the silhouette of the dress, but the precise way the fabric catches the light, the specific shade where her collarbone meets her neckline, the way individual strands of her hair fall across her shoulder. You pore over that photograph for hours,