Description: [caption id="attachment_4140" align="aligncenter" width="296" caption="Auguste Deter, Alois Alzheimer's patient in November 1901, first described patient with Alzheimer's Disease, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons."][/caption] From the moment we began to conceptualize the content of click!, it became obvious that we’d need to investigate photography’s relation to memory from a
Description: When James Smithson claimed in his will that “the best blood of England” ran through his veins, he was referring primarily to his family connection to the medieval Hungerfords.1 The Hungerfords were royal companions and powerful politicians in their heyday, and this good fortune managed to endure for centuries before dwindling away. Their family estates, passed down in some
Description: [caption id="attachment_3532" align="aligncenter" width="220" caption="Lorgnette Humaine, Scan from The English Mechanic, 1897 drawing of an invention using X-Rays to scan luggage, courtesy of Flickr user Mark Wahl, Creative Commons: Attribution 2.0."][/caption] A week or so ago, shoes off and stuck in the slow moving security check line at an airport, I became fixated as I