• Beacon@fedia.io
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    5 days ago

    You’d probably recognize Steven King also, but yeah the list is extremely small for everyone

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      4 days ago

      I’d recognise Poe, Pratchett as long as he had his hat, probably A. C. Clarke. There might be more, but that’s about everyone I can think of right now.

      I googled Asimov and that’s a very distinct look, but I can’t say I recall ever seeing him before.

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      Everyone mentioned so far is also a recent writer who actually has photographs available.

      Is there any photograph available from Shakespeare? I am a bit oblivious now when that technology started and if Shakespeare had access to it. Otherwise there are only drawings available and I think we all have seen how different the same person can look on historic documents.

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        There are no photographs of Shakespeare. He lived way before the invention of photography.

        As far as I understand there is a painting that might be of him, but it’s difficult because it doesn’t say “this is a painting of Shakespeare” on the bottom. It’s just a painting of a random man who probably was Shakespeare, but we don’t have proof.

        Even if the painting is of him we are assuming that it’s an accurate painting.