Invisible Images (Your Pictures Are Looking at You) – The New Inquiry
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Automated images don't just simply represent things—they actively intervene in everyday life.
An audio version of this essay is available to subscribers , provided by curio.io . “Winona” Eigenface (Colorized), Labelled Faces in the Wild Dataset 2016 I. OUR eyes are fleshy things, and for most of human history our visual culture has also been made of fleshy things. The history of images is a history of pigments and dyes, oils, acrylics, silver nitrate and gelatin--materials that one could use to paint a cave, a church, or a canvas. One could use them to make a photograph, or to print pictures on the pages of a magazine. The advent of screen-based media in the latter half of the 20th cen
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