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Good point, I still doubt the premise. Because you can claim by extension that photography was as radical a change. And there is little evidence to the fact. I

Good point, I still doubt the premise. Because you can claim by extension that photography was as radical a change. And there is little evidence to the fact. I claim that humans still primarily identify through the relationship with the others. Before or after the mirror. P.S. Fayum portraits that I mentioned where of all people, rich and poor.

thaumasiotes 10y ago
> P.S. Fayum portraits that I mentioned where of all people, rich and poor. From your own link: > The patrons of the portraits apparently belonged to the affluent upper class of military personnel, civil servants and religious dignitaries. Not everyone could afford a mummy portrait; many mummies were found without one. Flinders Petrie states that only one or two per cent of the mummies he excavated were embellished with portraits.