Anonymous Coward User ID: 1287825 United States 03/08/2011 01:38 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | What Do Thoughts Look Like? Ted Serios, a volatile, alcoholic bellhop from Chicago, set about capturing his on film, literally. "Psychic Projections/Photographic Impressions" features a series of images produced by Theodore Judd Serios (1918-2006), a bellhop from Chicago who appeared to possess a genuinely uncanny ability. By holding a Polaroid camera and focusing on the lens very intently, he was able to produce dreamlike pictures of his thoughts on the film; he referred to these images as "thoughtographs," and many striking examples are on display in the exhibition. Serios was able to produce images using various kinds of cameras and in many different situations, sometimes under quite stringent test conditions. On occasion, volunteers were asked to attend the experiment with a photograph sealed in a cardboard-backed manila envelope; Serios then managed to reproduce the image with no prior knowledge of it. [ link to chronicle.com] |