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Wouldn’t it be great to look at a page of text, or a map, and immediately remember every detail? Many famous people – from Leonardo da Vinci to former US President Bill Clinton – have claimed to have ...
Photographer and filmmaker Rachel Elizabeth Seed’s “A Photographic Memory” is a supple nonfiction triumph.
Sheila Turner-Seed left behind a trove of insightful interviews with major photographers. Her daughter unearths them, in pursuit of a connection she never had.
You might have heard stories about someone who has a photographic memory. Perhaps you even thought you or someone you know might have one. But is a photographic memory real? The brain works as a super ...
“A Photographic Memory” is guided by a probing specificity, and the deeper it pushes into the weeds of Sheila’s past — and the harder it listens for how they might reverberate through ...
In “A Photographic Memory,” Rachel implicitly answers that assertion. That’s true, of course. But imperfectly recreating the past is better than letting it slip away with the passage of time.
Sheila Turner Seed died when her daughter Rachel was a toddler. Almost 50 years later, Rachel tries to reframe her understanding of who Sheila was.
'A Photographic Memory,' the award-winning documentary directed by Rachel Elizabeth Seed, has been acquired by Zeitgeist Films and Kino Lorber.
Even if you aren't good at remembering things, you can still learn how to improve your memory. Here's how to get a photographic memory so you remember everything using three psychological tricks.
59-year-old Akira Haraguchi recited from memory the first 83,431 decimal places of pi, earning a spot in the Guinness World Records. He must have a photographic memory, right? Not so. According to ...
The accomplished mother that photographer-writer Rachel Elizabeth Seed never knew is the star of her deeply affecting “A Photographic Memory,” one of last year’s best documentaries, finally ...