A History of Human Identity in Pictures, Part 1
The concept of human identity stretches back thousands of years into unrecorded history.
The concept of human identity stretches back thousands of years into unrecorded history.
Long before our identities were digitized and stored in databases, we used language, objects, and documents to represent and confirm our individuality.
This pictorial history in 3 parts explores all the creative ways that we’ve developed to identify ourselves and each other over the millennia.
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