Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Time travel

This is a photo of Lewis Powell.


It was taken in 1865.


He was one of John Wilkes Boothe's co-conspirators in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Mads Dahl Madsen's colorized version of the original makes him seem absolutely contemporary to me. It could have been shot last week.

One of Lincoln, though still showing the distance of time, gives him a three-dimensionality I have never seen before. Unsettling, actually.

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